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Hamlet offers a paradoxical challenge for directors: as much a part of our universal educational lives as our first ruby-colored Monarch's Notes, it is the Pop in Fresh Dough of theatre: break open the cover, add water or conscious actors and you have your crescent role or your first-rate drama. And there's the rub: Cousin Pearl may like the prefabricated rolls, but the real credit, you know, belongs to the doughman, not you. Throw a dozen or so actors in front of an audience--even have them read their lines from their dog-cared Riverside edition...
...Claudius (Christopher Keyser) who murders his brother King Hamlet, marries his widow Gertrude (Thea Henry), revels in his incest-purchased court luxury, and dies at the hands of his ungrateful stepson, Prince Hamlet (Andrew Sullivan). Of the plot, I'll say no more--the midwestern English profs who pen Monarch Notes probably have children to support...
...gold-spired Grand Palace in Bangkok last week. With them came a single flutist playing Phya Sok (Great Sadness). One year after her death at the age of 79, Thailand's Queen Rambhai Barni took her last earthly journey in dignified splendor. Granddaughter of King Rama IV, the Thai monarch romanticized in The King and I, she was the wife of Thailand's last absolute ruler, before a coup installed a constitutional monarchy in 1932. The Queen's remains were borne on the traditional 40-ton, gilded teakwood chariot to an ornate cremation pavilion. Though some were critical...
...Hussein has refrained from criticizing the Mubarak scheme. The Jordanian monarch, who was vacationing in Europe last week, is scheduled to meet with Mubarak in Egypt this week. Still stung by the rejection of the 1982 Reagan Middle East peace plan by Israel and much of the Arab world, U.S. officials remain skeptical that the Egyptian President can bring together the Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians, with or without the P.L.O.'s blessing. Nonetheless, State Department officials look forward to discussing both Mubarak's plan and the Hussein-Arafat accord with the Egyptian President when he visits Washington early next week...
...Saudi Arabia's King Fahd paid a five-day state visit to Washington, the first by a monarch from the Desert Kingdom in 14 years. His principal message: the U.S. has a responsibility to use its influence in an effort aimed at achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...