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Tom Hiddleston, theatre man, on stage performing ‘Cymbeline’ in 2007.

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Tom Hiddleston in RADA Hamlet

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Tom Hiddleston to star in Hamlet at RADA in London

The ‘Kong: Skull Island’ actor will return to his theatre roots for a production of Hamlet, which will be directed by Kenneth Branagh with the aim of raising £20 million for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

‘Hamlet presents almost limitless possibilities for interpretation. I can’t wait to explore them, with this great cast, at RADA. Kenneth Branagh and I have long talked about working on the play together, and now felt like the right time, at the right place,’ he said.

‘To be guided through it by him as a director, an expert and a friend, is our great good fortune. The performing arts exist to bring people together, not to break or keep them apart.’

Funds raised from the production, which will have a three-week run at RADA’s 160-seat Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, London, from September 1-23 this year, will support the RADAttenborough Campaign, which is aiming to make money to regenerate the Academy’s Chenies Street premises.

Tom added: ‘I hope the funds raised by the production will help RADA continue to provide a wider field of equal opportunity to train actors, stage managers and technical theatre artists, from every background, to a standard of excellence and professionalism.

“The ‘Kong: Skull Island’ actor, not “the actor known as Loki”. This is important. Also, YAY!!!!!

{Coriolanus act IV Scene V}

Though thy tackle’s torn, thou show’st a noble vessel. What is thy name?

“If any such be here,

As it were sin to doubt, that love this painting Wherein you see me smeared; if any fear Lesser his person than an ill report; If any think brave death outweighs bad life And that this country’s dearer than himself; Let him alone, or so many so minded, Wave thus, to express his disposition, And follow Martius.”

I can’t stop making these. Help.

God bless the director, the costumer, the manufacturer, Mama and Papa Hiddleston, and Dammit himself for the callipygian vision of those pants.

^^^^^^ what she said

I’ll fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee Worse than a promise-breaker. ∟ Coriolanus, 1.5

O, a kiss long as my exile, sweet as my revenge.

Only their ends you have respected, stopped your ears against the general suit of Rome. Never admitted a private whisper, no, not with such friends that thought them sure of you.

- O, a kiss long as my exile, sweet as my revenge.

Flashback Friday: Tom Hiddleston + Theatre

Tom Hiddleston and Hadley Fraser as Coriolanus and Aufidius in Coriolanus

Tom Hiddleston | Coriolanus