“I know it’s happening under the brilliant Michael Grandage, I know he won award-nominations as a young thesp, I know he’s a decent age for the part – but still my heart thuds instinctively to the floor. … Hamlet can be many things – sardonic or guileless, fey or brutish, heart-rending or clownish, emotionally transparent or impossibly remote – and in the best performances he (sometimes she) succeeds in being all of those things at once. One thing Hamlet can’t be, though, is mediocre.”