Who wrote the play for which the 1996 film by the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company is based?
Trevor Nunn Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, like "Macbeth", as well as opera and musicals, such as "Cats" (1981) and "Les Misérables" (1985).
Hamlet on screen Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" have been made since 1900. Seven post-war "Hamlet" films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" of 1948; Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 Russian adaptation; a film of the John Gielgud-directed 1964 Broadway production, "Richard Burton's Hamlet", which played limited engagements that same year; Tony Richardson's 1969 version (the first in colour) featuring Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Anthony Hopkins as Claudius; Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 version starring Mel Gibson; Kenneth Branagh's full-text 1996 version; and Michael Almereyda's 2000 modernisation, starring Ethan Hawke.