Word: hyperion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greenblatt claims to be too new in town to be down on this one, but he does proffer lavish kudos to the student-run Hyperion Theatre Company for their rendition of Hamlet. "It was brilliant and rivaled the marvelous production I saw several years at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]," quoth the prof...
...Hyperion Theatre Company--the undergraduate Shakespeare group under whose general auspices this production fell--has been pointing proudly to the historical significance of enacting Hamlet in Sanders given the stage's Elizabethan proportions and structure. (You can take a look at playbills and clippings from the last century onward--including Norton's review--in the history of Hamlet in Sanders display that's been set up in the buildings main hall; take a look before they clear it away.) Visually speaking, they're right: Sanders turns out to be a pretty impressive place to do Shakespeare. All that dark wood...
...would be somewhat unfair to echo Norton in saying that the Hyperion actors "continually pass[ed] the bounds of usual undergraduate performances." They did, however present more polish than the usual undergraduate Shakespeare shows. Brett Egan '99, as Hamlet, was handed the monumental task of carrying the weight of the show upon his shoulders; while it would take more space than is given to an entire review to dissect an actor's performance of a Hamlet, it can be said that Egan did a generally fine job with the role, making his Hamlet sympathetic enough to carry our sympathy...
...strongest element this production had working for it, ultimately, was the simple--and marvelously complex--power of the text itself. This production did succeed in bringing much of its power out rather beautifully. It looks as if the Hyperion's experiment was successful: they brought one of the most difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked...
...Hyperion Theatre Company - Founding Member; Men's Varsity Golf. Team; 25th Reunion Worker - Class of 1973; Woodbridge Society - International Student Mentor; Fantastick Theatre Company and Mainly Jazz - Producer of "It Takes a Woman...