The year is 1964, and actor Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s (Mark Gatiss, Sherlock, Game of Thrones) exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide, and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel. Sam Mendes (1917, National Theatre Live’s THE LEHMAN TRILOGY) directs this fierce and funny new play that offers a glimpse into the politics of a rehearsal room and the relationship between art and celebrity.