Word: hamlet
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...girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same as Hamlet is considered for the Shakespearean actor,' says Dame Alicia Markova, a former prima ballerina who in 1960 wrote a book titled Giselle and I. 'You have to be something almost not human to give a good rendering, because it demands so much. Wherever I went, that's what the people...
...more or than and. Jennifer is talented and cute but too pudgy to land hot-chick roles. Instead, she's playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet with fewer audience members than actors and doing "stand-in" work on George Lopez (literally standing in an actress's place so that the crew can set up the lighting). Krista has the opposite problem. A full-on babe (in real life, Clooney's ex-flame) and single mom, she has been in Baywatch and the Emmanuelle series of soft-core flicks. Typecast and getting no younger, she wants to play serious roles...
...small studio north of Copenhagen, Utzon drew on film footage of Sydney and, being the son of a naval architect, consulted admiralty charts of the harbor; he was struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition...
Bringing Shakespeare, or Shakspr, to new heights, the Winthrop House Drama Society has squashed years worth of Will’s hard work and several hours worth of comedy, tragedy and history into a two-hour spectacle ‘compleat’ with backwards recitations of Hamlet, a rap of Othello and a football game summary of the histories. Tickets $8, $5 for students and seniors, $3 for Winthrop House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2-4 at 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...It’s one of my passionate intellectual areas.” He calls Death and the King’s Horseman “as great a play as any ever written” and says it will continue to be read 1000 years from now alongside Hamlet and other classics...