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...turn? I never found out. She cited the practical reason that she did not want a repeat of the government-recommended, ultimately abortive evacuation of December 1944. We had spent three days on a crowded refugee train headed for the south. When we reached our destination, a hamlet on the Bavarian high plateau, Mother stood in the bitter wind at the station, took one look and declared that we were going back. The evacuation officials were flabbergasted: Why would anyone want to head east? She never explained why she chose to give up the relative security of that Bavarian hamlet...
Breakers come crashing in over the loudspeakers as the audience fills the theater. The surge of the ocean can be lulling, but these waves are too big for that. Both the audience and the still unseen actors are left with the same question: Will Hamlet sweep...
...nothing less of a drama that traffics in suicide, fratricide, regicide, specters, madness, incest. Horatio in the first act tries to discourage Hamlet from pursuing his father's ghost: "What if it tempt you toward the flood?" But full into the flood Hamlet eagerly plunges-and we in the audience with him. It is one of the play's many paradoxes that the character we rely upon to guide us on so long and stormy a journey is himself so feckless and equivocal. Although "most royal" and a "noble heart," Hamlet unwittingly destroys almost everyone dear to him-even while...
...Kent, have chosen to play things straight. There are no clashing incongruities of costume or accent, no radical deletions or insertions. Sets are appropriately dark and stark. The pace is brisk, sometimes to the point where speeches seem dashed off -- less expounded than expelled. But the rapidity mostly works. Hamlet's "To be or not to be ." soliloquy comes in at a hurtling but affecting clip; Fiennes seems less concerned with weighing alternatives than with feverishly fending off suicide. He makes an athletic-looking prince, and he manages to appear beautifully, brainlessly exultant in the final scene, with fencing foil...
...Bible: The Complete Word of God(abridged). Through May 7. The ReducedShakespeare Company, C. Walsh Theatre, 45 TempleSt., Suffolk University, Beacon Hill. 547-8300.Notorious for their four-minute Hamlet, TheComplete, Works of Shakespeare (abridged) and TheComplete History of America (abridged), the badboys of abridgment are back! This time the R.S.C.romp through the Holy Book with irreverent gleethrough this unauthorized King Jim Version of theGreatest Stories Ever Shortened...