A choreographic fantasy based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare . It was staged in the tradition of Soviet choreodrama . The choreography is based on a mixture of classical ballet movements and modern (for the USSR at that time) dance. Maris Liepa - Hamlet Margarita Alfimova - Gertrude Sergey Radchenko - Claudius Irina Kholina - Ophelia Andrey Kondratov - Laertes Vasily Smoltsov - Polonius Ekaterina Aksenova, Irina Vozianova - Thoughts Grigory Gurevich - Ghost Natalia Yegelskaya, Georgy Gots, Evgeny Nizovoy - Actors Artists of the Bolshoi Theater - courtiers, jesters