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Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and Shakespeare is a feminist reading of Hamlet with Ophelia at its centre, performed at ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

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, ...

The title role in Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy Hamlet is on the bucket list for many actors wishing to challenge their ...

Schepisi took a couple of liberties with the original play. He changed the setting from 1700s Paris into a ski resort town in the 1980s; moved the action from the Hôtel de Bourgogne into a fire house; ...

[and] killing Polonius,” Gunderson says. A Room in the Castle creates a space for these women to try and make sense of Hamlet’s seemingly crazed behavior and then attempt to figure out what ...

Periods of happiness are empty pages in history,” he wrote in his Introduction to the Philosophy of History, “for they are the periods of harmony, times when the antithesis is missing.” In other words ...

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 ...

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