Word: fluting
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BEFORE The Bald Magic Hamlet begins, director Mark Prascak explains that his adaptation--which combines Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamlet-- means to show that the plays are related through "parallel mythic structures" and that the three authors were probably drunk "and you should be too." Then he offers each member of the audience a beer...
...laugh, but beer is one of the running motifs of Prascak's production, one of the few things that unites the three plays. Flute's Queen of the Night (Lee Ann Einert) rules over the proceedings with a can of Rolling Rock in her outstretched hand. Soprano's bourgeois Londoners drink the stuff, too. And Hamlet's (Elijah Aron) famous soliloquy now begins, "To drink beer or not to drink beer...
...mythic parallels, it is possible that there are similarities between Hamlet and Flute's Tamino (also played by Aron) or between Hamlet's Queen Gertrude and the Queen of the Night. However, the play doesn't really explore these similarities, and the decision to unite these three works remains a mystery...
...vegetation of the Currier House dining hall's terrarium, wearing tie-dyed clothing (and tie-dyed faces) and uttering clever, non sequitur one-liners. A strobe light gradually speeds up throughout the play. In the background plays what sounds like Satan's own version of the score from Flute, diced and spliced, with an electronic drum track. Every half-minute or so, the music becomes so loud that the actors stop talking and start dancing...
...hall, but he ended up putting it on in Currier's nearby Fishbowl. This year, the trees are gone, but Prascak gets his wish, as the dining hall will be the site of his musical adaptation of three works: Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamle...