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@RizAhmed: Why Hamlet holds a mirror up to today's society

Naqqash Khalid · UK · Documentary · 10 min · 98K views

Riz Ahmed joins youth theatre groups across London to explore why Hamlet's famous soliloquy is really a collective call to action.

Riz Ahmed and London teenagers make a 400-year-old speech feel urgent and political.

To be, or not to be? “The most famous speech in the English language has been deradicalized and made into something very safe and individualistic when actually it’s about a collective call to action,” says actor and film

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