Young Stratford woman takes to Edinburgh stage to tell brain tumour story

By Oscar Trinick

A YOUNG Stratford actor is channelling Hamlet to tell her story after she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

Olivia Hamblett has taken advantage of her surname’s similarity to Shakespeare’s famously introspective prince and written a solo performance, simply entitled Hamblett, which she is taking to the Edinburgh Fringe next month.