Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...Burke and Green give virtuosity-level performances in this zany comedy. Amblad's rendition of Juliet's Italian nurse is worlds apart from his despondent teenager routine as Romeo. Likewise, Green's portrayal of an alternately insane and Valley Girl-esque Ophelia is completely dissimilar to his abruptly lyrical Hamlet in the "What a piece of work is man" speech. Amblad and Green share a rare stage chemistry; it will come as no surprise to the audience that they have played these (and other) roles together before. They performed with Sabrina Howells of Boston University.in a production of The Compleat...
Pictured at right, pirate-garbed Will Burke '99 plays Hamlet; a quintessentially demure Adam "Waka" Green easily slips into the role of Juliet; and Erik Amblad '98-'99 (bowled over by the force of so many numeral hanging from the back of his name, no doubt) wears a tidy red cape...
...skull of the late actor-comedian Del Close was given to Chicago's Goodman Theatre for use in roles like Hamlet's Yorick that call for such deadpan talent...
...Vietnam comes round again for one of its periodic encores in the American mind. The war used to make these reappearances like the ghost of Hamlet's father as played by an adolescent--overacting, howling at the universe: think of the Rambo movies or Apocalypse Now. But the American flashbacks get more reflective as the years pass. This time the war revisits in the form of two documentary films, radically different from each other (one is utterly masculine, the other completely feminine). Both bring to the subject a wisdom earned the hard...