Another Fiennes performance?

Ralph Fiennes tackled what became known as the Hackney Hamlet nine years ago, and now he's considering having another look at the spookedout Danish prince.

The award-winning director Jonathan production when the to the Hackney Empire London.

But lately Fiennes Adrian Noble, with appeared in Brand in have been musing another go.

Noble directed Kenneth Hamlet when he ran Company. 'It's the second wives' we've each had a Noble joked this week.

'We found when we were working on Brand that there were aspects of Hamlet that neither of us had explored.'

He said that the possible plan would be to stage a reasonably small-scale Hamlet and do it in a space for 300 to 500 people in London in the autumn of 2005.

Afterwards, they could, perhaps, take it to Paris and maybe even Russia. But first, Noble has to make a movie and then do Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Broadway.

The director said there were complex reasons for actors being drawn to Hamlet.

'It's like a rite of passage. It somehow talks to us all about the problems we have with growing up, whether it happens at 18 or at 38.'

Through his spokesperson, Fiennes stressed that the production was still 'only a possibility'.

Meanwhile, the actor is preparing to work with Rachel Weisz and Danny Huston on director Fernando Meirelles's film of John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener.