Dir: Chloé Zhao 2025 | 126 mins
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Nominated in eight categories at this year's Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jessie Buckley and Best Adapted Screenplay.
1580 England. Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare meets free-spirited Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid affair that leads to marriage and three children.
Yet as Will pursues a budding theatre career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple’s once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Hamnet is a sensitively observed, magnificently crafted tale about the complexities of love and the healing power of art and creativity.
From Academy Award winning writer / director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, The Rider). Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn - and music by Max Richter.
'Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy' ★★★★★ The Guardian
Courtyard Theatre
£10.50 | £9.50 conc
Open Captioned Screening
The screening on Wed 18 Feb 2pm is an Open Captioned Screening. These screenings provide a transcription of the audio from a film. Captions are displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen along with the dialogue from the film.
Neon Members - Free membership for ages 16 - 25
£5 (offer applied in basket once logged in).
Three Films Ticket Offer
£9 | £8 conc tickets when you book for three films at the same time. Offer excludes event cinema screenings. Offer applied in basket.
Follow us on Letterboxd – the social platform for film lovers!
The perfect place to discover the latest films – as well as those you may have missed.
You may also like the following events from Norden Farm Centre for the Arts:
Also check out other
Arts events in Maidenhead,
Entertainment events in Maidenhead,
Theatre events in Maidenhead.
