A Love Letter to the Theatre

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A Love Letter to the Theatre

“Serendipity and the pandemic handed the Hamlet film to me,” director Sean Mathias tells me, as he explains how the play that he and Sir Ian McKellen had been preparing for the stage became a silver-screen production. “By the time we were ready to film, I knew every space, corner, room, corridor, lift, hallway, and even toilet in what became our film set. I knew where each and every scene would be set, and yes, we even shot one of our scenes in …