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National Centre for the Performing Arts Drama Hamlet

Date: March 2-10 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Comedy Theatre

Price: 80-500 yuan

"To be or not to be, that is a question." For more than 400 years, Hamlet, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, has enthralled countless dramatists and scholars. The play tells a tale about how Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, revenged his dead father, thus unfolding a real-life picture of England and Europe. It truly is a profound tragedy teeming with vivid characters through superb artistry as the highest achievement of Renaissance literature. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello form the so-called "Four Tragedies of Shakespeare". On the 400th anniversary of his death, National Centre for the Performing Arts drama A Midsummer Night's Dream and opera Macbeth have been put on show. To explore the quintessence of this drama maestro, NCPA would bring us his other plays as well, especially the much-expected Hamlet.