Russian Hamlet

Since Shakespeare is the theme of this year's Beijing International Drama Festival, you would of course expect more than one Hamlet. After the Beijing People's Art Theater's production and the Chinese veteran director Lin Zhaohua's version, now comes the third Hamlet.

The Kazakhstan State Russian Drama Theater named after M.Gorky, which has a long history of 106 years, will perform Shakespeare's most popular tragedy Hamlet at the China Children's Art Theater today.

The bard's longest play and one of the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language, it is set in Denmark and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother.