Elsinore

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Sebastian Baczkiewicz's thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Sebastian Baczkiewicz's thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set in an alternative 20th-century Europe.

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John Heffernan

John Light

Lyndsey Marshal

Clive Hayward

Rupert Holliday Evans

Neil McCaul

Abbie Andrews

Philip Bretherton

Sudha Bhuchar

David Reakes

Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong

Marc Beeby

Sasha Yevtushenko

Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Elsinore: Series 1: Episode 4

Episode 4

Series 1

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Dangerous, desperate love meets betrayal and murder in the turbulent world of Elsinore.

Sebastian Baczkiewicz's series reaches its climax with a story that combines desperate love with crushing betrayal when Claudius discovers the truth behind events in Sweden.

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz

The traitor, Lord Anders, has been found in Sweden and Claudius is dispatched to bring him back to Denmark. But in doing so, Claudius discovers some devastating news about what his brother, King Hamlet, is planning.

Set in an alternative Europe in the 1930s, Elsinore imagines the turbulent world of the Danish Court in events that take place some years before the story told in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Directed by Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko.

Elsinore: Series 1

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Thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set in an alternative 1930s Europe.

Sebastian Baczkiewicz's thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet imagines the turbulent world of the Danish Court in an alternative 1930s Europe.

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