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...thirty minutes, an hour went by and he was still there.” Hyperion’s productions became more and more elaborate as the years passed. By Speedie and Saunders’ senior year in 1999, the company staged a sold-out production of “Hamlet?? on the stage of Sanders Theatre. However, the company’s fortunes faded quickly with the graduation of its founders. Speedie admitted to poorly planning for the future of the company before he graduated, which may have led to the current problems of the company...
...performers casually took advantage of their feathers to crack out light puns—“right-wing politics” anyone? The Classics Club may have gone overboard with crude sexual humor, but they redeemed themselves with cute and clever literary allusions to “Hamlet?? and “The Odyssey.” Indisputably, the performers took advantage of a great script. Not only did they articulately roll their tongues around lengthy rhymes chock full of SAT vocabulary, but they used flamboyant inflection and expression, so that the average audience member was able...
...morning,” according to Zalisk.But “Richard II” is already a staple of the Shakespeare performance circuit, according to Associate Professor of History and Literature Blair G. Hoxby. “Although the play is not performed as often as ‘Hamlet?? or ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream,’ [sic] it is widely respected and quite frequently performed,” he writes in an email. So why is there a need for a 21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director...
...section about Hamlet??s stutter-like habits of repetition, punning, and word substitution, Shell makes the (perhaps unavoidable) play on Hamlet being a “little ham” akin to Porky...
...friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet??s line, ‘We shall not look upon his like again,’ I think has never been truer,” Bruster said. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...