His costume-changes, including a Blockbuster Video sweatshirt and a ruff and tailcoat, are affectations, poses. For the theatre-trivia nerds, his t-shirt slogan “Tobacco and Boys” is a quote from a Christopher Marlowe poem, and possibly a smug nod to Born with Teeth, the current West End show from the other major national company, the RSC, which imagines Shakespeare and Marlowe as collaborators and possible lovers.
Hamlet at National Theatre: the Prince has ADHD in uneven production
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