Culture ‘The Play’s the Thing’: How ‘The Motive and the Cue’ Venerates a 500-year tradition of Shakespeare performance Staff Writer Evelyn Shepphird reviews the National Theatre’s ‘The Motive and the Cue’ and its faithfulness to the 1964 ‘Hamlet’ it dramatises. ‘The Motive... Evelyn Shepphird24 March, 2024