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...HAMLET. Kevin Kline's 1986 performance of the actor's Mount Everest was romantic, comedic and gloriously literate. This time he not only stars in but also directs a much anticipated off-Broadway staging...
...Morley Safer accompanied a force of U.S. Marines on a search-and- destroy mission to the hamlet of Cam Ne. It was mostly destroy. The footage of troops burning peasant huts was seen by millions on the CBS News. It was an era of "tragic foolishness," says Safer in Flashbacks, an artful contrast of past and present that recalls a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...
Glenn Kiser is also delightful as the aggrieved Prince of Denmark. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard imparts a bit more method into Hamlet's madness than can be found in Shakespeare's text, and Kiser adds a devilish glitter to the part...
Mitchell reworks the scenes drawn from Hamlet to give them an appropriately comedic twist. It's rare to praise a part overplayed, but Kevin Kain merits this designation for his hysterical performance as Polonius...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is a play for the cogniscenti, and those who have not read Hamlet and Beckett and a slew of other playwrights might not appreciate the humor and good performances in this production. But those who enjoy spoofs on the canon will love this bizarre amalgamation that has returned, successfully, to Leverett House...