Synopsis:

What goes through a man's mind when he is playing Hamlet? How does Shakespeare's best known play actually work, from the inside? And what effect does playing Hamlet have on a man's life? Here are Steven Berkoff's scene-by-scene observations, which cover the whole range of human experience – from love and death, to life in Britain now. I am Hamlet not only shows the mind of an actor at work, but it is also an expression of the lasting authority of Shakespeare's play.