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...worried that we de-contextualized all these scenes,” said Jay D. Musen ’09, who played Polonius in a scene from “Hamlet” in which he disapproved of his daughter Ophelia’s budding relationship with the Danish prince...
...Subject checked e-mail and received one new message, from "Polonius J. Frootier" with subject line "INSTINTLY GAIN 3-5 MORE INCHES!!!!" Subject deleted message. The FBI tells us they are unable to locate any information on Mr. Frootier...
...21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director of this new adaptation, the answer is simple: the 1595 version has the substance, but not the style, to appeal to audiences today. ‘TRAGICAL-HISTORICAL’In “Hamlet,” the elderly courtier Polonius famously rattles off a long list of hyphenated, smashed-together categories of drama. Of these, the designation “tragical-historical” fits “Richard II” perfectly. Sometimes billed as a tragedy and sometimes as a history, the play has always straddled these...
...scripts long enough to read the cue, or when one of the organizers barked an order from offstage: “Exit Hamlet!” Actors sheathed swords in their belt-loops and the elastics of their pants, pulling them out to punctuate fight scenes. Hamlet killed Polonius through a tapestry held by the Lowell house tutors. As the climax approached, actors deadpanned. Gertrude, the queen, drank a glass of colorful paper, meant to represent poison, and each actor languished into a dramatic death on stage. Actor Nora K. C. Flum ’07, who last spring...
...cast is mostly excellent, with Crystal a nice surprise as the gravedigger and Richard Briers rescuing Polonius from amiable fuddery; this old man is as much plotter as plodder. If there's a lapse, it's in the central performance. Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster. But he can't so easily make it poetic...