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This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal...
...murder suspect with multiple personality disorder, respectively. If anyone had the monopoly over damaged souls and troubled teens it was McKenzie. The elfin actress first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over by Cate Blanchett. And for the latter part of the '90s, McKenzie's star seemed eclipsed by a succession of less dangerous, more girl-next-door types...
...more or than and. Jennifer is talented and cute but too pudgy to land hot-chick roles. Instead, she's playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet with fewer audience members than actors and doing "stand-in" work on George Lopez (literally standing in an actress's place so that the crew can set up the lighting). Krista has the opposite problem. A full-on babe (in real life, Clooney's ex-flame) and single mom, she has been in Baywatch and the Emmanuelle series of soft-core flicks. Typecast and getting no younger, she wants to play serious roles...
...students. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater. (ELF)THEATER | The Compleat Works of Wllm Shakspr (abridged)The Winthrop House Drama Society will present an uproarious condensation and parody of Shakespeare’s entire corpus. Laugh, cry, then laugh some more at Othello rapping, Titus Andronicus cooking, and Ophelia drowning. “Shakespeare will never make you laugh so hard again!” Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $8, Students & Seniors $5, House Residents $3. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Winthrop...
...will be able to tell the grandchildren that you saw Ben Whishaw?s first great role.? In black garb, with a thin white face, his crimson lips the only color in his array, Whishaw does attract attention. He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds his head as if it would split from shame or rage...