The title role in Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy Hamlet is on the bucket list for many actors wishing to challenge their ...
Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and Shakespeare is a feminist reading of Hamlet with Ophelia at its centre, performed at ...
And it’s not Hamlet who speaks that immortal monologue ... Rounding out the cast is Richard Hilliar as Ophelia’s father, Polonius, Zachary Aleksander as brother Laertes, and Finley Penrose ...
They say an old man is twice a child,” Rosencrantz remarks in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as he and the prince of Denmark observe Polonius. It’s a borrowed line, dating back to antiquity: Sophocles wrote, ...
Dial down – just a bit – on individual satisfaction and lean – just a bit – into community well-being. Here’s a four point ...
By Houman Barekat Reviewing from Stratford-upon-Avon, England In the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Hamlet,” the Danish ... as the sycophantic councilor Polonius, whose desperate desire ...
How do you choreograph “To be or not to be”? That is the question, or at least one of them, for anybody looking to make a movement piece out of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” This past ...
“Traditionally, Hamlet is played by an iconic actor ... Ophelia’s turmoil, Polonius’ advice, the theme of supervised love, and scenes like ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ and the play-within ...