Word: timelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the beginning, set and costume designer Antony McDonald confirms the bizarre timeless and time-warped world which Hamlet inhabits-characters walk obliviously among sloped walls, tilted windows and mixed period costumes. Persons of the Court dress in sedate gray, crimson or black uniforms and evening gowns. Visitors to Elsinore wear three-piece suits and trench coats, and each Player sports a different decade's styles...
Regional individuality has vanished, replaced by a homogenized, spaceless, timeless world where, in the words of the Mazda Miata commercial, "Blue jeans and white T-shirts were...
While this production, as a whole, fails to bring Shakespeare's script to new levels of theatrical excellence, it is worth seeing for several good performances and solid direction. Shakespeare's story is a timeless commentary on prejudice and hatred, and Siegler's interpretation, though not exceptional, deserves attention...
...Connor is fortunate to have material this rich and this timeless with which to work. This travelling production of Joyicity played to packed audiences at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Its one-night staging in Toronto elicited 17 curtain calls. And judging from the quality of this engagement, such praise was well-deserved...
...tone. The male and female chorus members are delightful, as they spar, tango and symbolically sharpen knives at the dinner table. Although the phallic use of umbrellas is carried slightly too far, by the end of the show the audience does view the battle of the sexes as a timeless dance...