Mitchell is abundantly clear where she stands on the gender politics of Shakespeare’s work; unusually for a British director, she has only directed one Shakespeare play during her entire 30-year career and she calls Hamlet “offensive”. “I find Hamlet offensive from a gender point of view,” she has said. “There is something about the celebration of a depressed, violent man in the play which I am a bit weary of – and the way in which the idea of Hamlet, the idea of the depressed, heroic, violent man, is still very much in our culture.”
So, what do we do, I ask her. Stop staging Hamlet? “I don’t know,” she says.
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