National Theatre Live: Hamlet
bloody images, upsetting scenes, references to sex & suicide, bad language
Director(s)Robert Hastie
Production year2025
Release date22/01/2026
Genre(s)Performance
Approx. running minutes177m
CastHiran Abeysekera
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
bloody images, upsetting scenes, references to sex & suicide, bad language
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: HAMLET is a recording of a 2025 performance of William Shakespeare's tragic drama.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: HAMLET is a recording of a 2025 performance of William Shakespeare's tragic drama.
violence
threat and horror
language
sex
injury detail
suicide and self-harm
theme
discrimination
bloody images, upsetting scenes, references to sex & suicide, bad language
Classified Date:
12/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
violence
Moderate violence features an off-screen shooting, undetailed slashings and stabbings with swords, and poisonings. There are verbal references to murder.
threat and horror
People are threatened with guns and bladed weapons.
language
Moderate bad language ('whore', 'harlot') features, as well as milder terms such as 'strumpet', 'damn' and 'God'.
sex
Moderate sex references include references to incestuous and adulterous relationships, 'whoring' and virginity, as well as innuendo in the course of bawdy banter.
injury detail
There is moderate bloody injury detail in the aftermath of violence.
suicide and self-harm
People ideate suicide and a person takes their own life off-screen.
theme
Upsetting scenes are centred on characters driven into mental turmoil by grief and thoughts of revenge.
Classified Date:
08/12/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
Classified date12/01/2026
LanguageEnglish
violence
threat and horror
language
sex
injury detail
suicide and self-harm
theme
discrimination
Director(s)Robert Hastie
Production year2025
Release date22/01/2026
Genre(s)Performance
Approx. running minutes177m
CastHiran Abeysekera
bloody images, upsetting scenes, references to sex & suicide, bad language
Classified Date:
12/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
violence
Moderate violence features an off-screen shooting, undetailed slashings and stabbings with swords, and poisonings. There are verbal references to murder.
threat and horror
People are threatened with guns and bladed weapons.
language
Moderate bad language ('whore', 'harlot') features, as well as milder terms such as 'strumpet', 'damn' and 'God'.
sex
Moderate sex references include references to incestuous and adulterous relationships, 'whoring' and virginity, as well as innuendo in the course of bawdy banter.
injury detail
There is moderate bloody injury detail in the aftermath of violence.
suicide and self-harm
People ideate suicide and a person takes their own life off-screen.
theme
Upsetting scenes are centred on characters driven into mental turmoil by grief and thoughts of revenge.
Classified Date:
08/12/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
Classified date12/01/2026
LanguageEnglish