The Line of Duty actor will play Claudius and the Ghost when the postponed play opens next month
Adrian Dunbar is to join Cush Jumbo in the Young Vic theatre’s production of Hamlet which, postponed for more than a year, will open in London next month.
Dunbar, best known as Supt Ted Hastings in the BBC’s hit crime series Line of Duty, will play the dual role of Claudius and the Ghost. It marks a high-profile return to theatre for the actor, who starred in plays directed by Danny Boyle and Max Stafford-Clark at the Royal Court in London and portrayed the artist Vermeer in a West End adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 2008.