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Jacob Aaron Broder, as Hamlet, had a rather rough start. His abrupt tone and volume shifts, which were supposed to parallel his mood swings, were instead too rough and affected. As the play progressed, he gained his rhythm and confidence to the point where, when he uttered the line "I want to be a woman," he was believed...
Rachel Cohen's Ophelia was a great complement to Hamlet. When she changes from Shakespeare's weak, supplicating girl to Heinrich Muller's strong, gruff-voiced feminist, she threatens to overshadow the play's lead character. Though her solo dance left much to be desired on both her part and that of choreographer Kaiama Glover, her unorthodox lines were delivered with sufficient punch and conviction to enthrall the audience...
...compensating solutions or vision. In its stead, the play's program guide attempts to provide impromptu solutions to modern problems, including a revolution led by the Third World and women. An interesting thought, but it fails to be integrated into the thematic bent of a play dominated by Hamlet, a man constantly surrounded by women--even the "liberated" Ophelia--who dance for his pleasure...
...SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong...
Underwear, Aboriginals, Hamlet and an airline passenger named Death seem unlikely subjects for a poetry reading. But Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe combined these and other topics in a reading last Thursday that ranged from the absurd to the beautiful to the profound...