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...Senator Kennedy [Nov. 5] is elected President, Americans will not see a resurrected Camelot. Indeed, we might witness Hamlet's Elsinore-a realm preoccupied with the unrealized and abstract legacies of ghosts...
...generations ago, Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, a play that captures the earnestness and innocence of Americans trapped in towns with one drugstore, one doctor, one minister and one cemetary; towns like the Irish hamlet where Charlie lives with his mother and father. But for all its simplicity, Our Town is imbued with the super-natural: in the cemetary that overlooks the town, a host of the dead assemble to discuss life. One of the dead, a woman named Emily, barters with the play's narrator for the chance to watch herself relive one day of her life, her twelfth...
Innocent Cambodians are, as ever, caught in the crossfire. According to refugees, Vietnamese troops "liberating" a hamlet from the Khmer Rouge will customarily abolish the communal kitchens and other vestiges of Pol Pot's extremist brand of Communism and allow the citizens to elect their own leaders. The Vietnamese then move on to other villages, leaving the inhabitants defenseless against the revenge of Khmer Rouge who swoop down at night, reinstitute the communal kitchens, seize what food is available, and kill the elected leaders...
Hughes, who has worked in the theater for 45 years, said he "stumbled into it. I was dared to go into the theater." He said when he was 19 he saw a production of "Hamlet" with two bad actors. He told a friend. "If I can't act better than those two. I'd better give up." The friend got a friend to hear Hughes read, and hired him to play a one-line role in Frank Lee Short's production of "The Taming of the Shrew...
Shostakovich wrote the score for the superb Soviet film of Hamlet. It was one of his favorite plays, and there was a line of Hamlet's he particularly liked: "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon...