Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plays can prove themselves to be lasting literature in two ways. Some, like Hamlet, show a protean adaptability that allows each interpreter to find a different theme or message. Others, like Our Town, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a robustly funny Broadway revival that opened last week, say much the same things in every production, yet manage to do so with a seemingly inexhaustible freshness. Actors and directors, predictably, tend to prefer the protean kind of play, because it gives them greater opportunity to display creativity and intelligence. But audiences can be just as happy with the second...
...Shakespeare scholar in a room with a baby for a long time, and the baby will not emerge spouting lines from "Hamlet"; rather the scholar will be saying, "Goo, ga" and asking for a bottle...
...running motifs of Prascak's production, one of the few things that unites the three plays. Flute's Queen of the Night (Lee Ann Einert) rules over the proceedings with a can of Rolling Rock in her outstretched hand. Soprano's bourgeois Londoners drink the stuff, too. And Hamlet's (Elijah Aron) famous soliloquy now begins, "To drink beer or not to drink beer...
...mythic parallels, it is possible that there are similarities between Hamlet and Flute's Tamino (also played by Aron) or between Hamlet's Queen Gertrude and the Queen of the Night. However, the play doesn't really explore these similarities, and the decision to unite these three works remains a mystery...
Some viewers will find The Bald Magic Hamlet silly. Some will be outraged; most will be confused. These are probably the reactions that Prascak wants...