Yukio Ninagawa, the director famous for his intercultural productions of Shakespeare's plays brings his most recent production of Hamlet to Edinburgh . The audience arrive at Kronburg Castle at Elsinore in Denmark where the barbed wire trails from ceiling to floor, a memory of the castle's most horrid prison cell, lit dimly with bare light bulbs and empty of everything but it's cold prison walls.

This excellent production, which uses an edited version of Shakespeare's original English language text, tells the story of the young Prince of Denmark, supposedly driven mad by his father's death, brought to life by an outstanding twenty-one member cast, all of whom bring passion and conviction to their often horrendously complex roles.

Set in a never-time, costumes and characters are highlighted strongly against the stark contrast of the set, Ninagawa gets on with telling the story, and he does it marvelously. Go see, go see..