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“Muddled yet transfixing”

Long ReviewsJul 21, 2021Theatre Royal Windsor

Ian McKellen in Hamlet at Theatre Royal Windsor. Photo: Tristram Kenton

Ian McKellen entertains and entrances as Hamlet in an otherwise confused and chaotic production

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