Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

John Lithgow as Self - Performer Judi Dench as Self - Performer Richard David-Caine as Self Theo Ogundipe as Various Alex Waldmann as Self - Performer Akala as The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company Al Murray as Bottom Catherine Tate as Self - Host Nicholas Lumley as Various Antony Sher as Self Benedict Cumberbatch as Self - Performer Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet Rufus Hound as Self Alison Moyet as Much Ado About Nothing Tom Stourton as Horrible Histories segment Rufus Wainwright as Self - Performer Anne-Marie Duff as Self - Performer Henry Goodman as Self Harriet Walter as Self - Performer King Charles III of the United Kingdom as Self - Hamlet Tim Minchin as Self David Tennant as Self - Host Ian McKellen as Self - Performer David Suchet as Oberon Mariah Gale as Juliet Alex Hassell as Various Joseph Fiennes as Self Helen Mirren as Self - Performer Simon Russell Beale as Richard II Rory Kinnear as Self - Performer Natey Jones as Romeo

Gregory Doran Director Rufus Wainwright Original Music Composer Bridget Caldwell Director John Wyver Producer