David Ajala

The Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny. Hamlet must decide whether to avenge his father's murder at the hands of his uncle Claudius, who has married his brother's wife - Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. This visually sumptuous screen version was filmed on location with all of the original stage cast. (BBC iPlayer)

Hot shot Premiership footballer Jerome seems to have it all until one day he runs into his old estate crew. Soon he finds himself being blackmailed by his old gang and must try to find a way to stop it before he gets dragged back into the world he left behind.

A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father. (imdb)

Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, the National stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's latest witty and challen ing adventure story. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress. Neither speaks the others language, but somehow they must learn to survive and forge a new nation. (youtube.com)

Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. (imdb)

With Sam facing up to the new world, he realises that it comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face, and that he will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.

The story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each of them is on a mysterious and highly personal quest - one is searching for his missing girlfriend, one is searching for a lost child, one is looking to cure his catatonic mother - and it is the clues found in their collective dream that come to guide them. (imdb)

A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NYC, she connects with a group of teenagers - in conversations both real and imagined - and searches for a way home. (imdb)