Paapa Essiedu

If you could trade all of your knowledge of Shakespeare’s works for the chance to experience reading/ performing Hamlet again for the first time, would you? I don’t profess to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Shakespeare anyway but there are few feelings that can match the excitement of performing Hamlet for the first time. It’s a strange mix of terror and exhilaration. Wouldn’t swap it for anything. If you could pick any other Shakespeare character to play who would you pick and why? I’d love to play Iago [from Othello] one day. His mind works in a genius way similarly…