Word: uncut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway, Maurice Evans' uncut Hamlet, which runs from 6:30 to 11:20 p. m., is no treat for standees. The night the show acquired its first standees Producer Evans was so elated that he invited all four of them to eat as his guests during the dinner intermission...
Hamlet. Maurice Evans in an uncut version: twice as long as the usual Hamlet, twice as good (TIME...
...theatre last season was a Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner, Evans rang down the curtain at 11:20, the audience proved how they...
Evans had shown that an uncut Hamlet is no stunt, but an illuminating and vital enlargement of the world's most famous play. Shakespeare's tragedy, smudgily superimposed on centuries of older material, muddied by contradictory First Quartos and Folios, bristling with controversial motivations, above all dealing with a chief character as baffling as he is baffled, is truly-in Critic T.S. Eliot's phrase-"the Mona Lisa of literature." Its elucidation requires not so much scholars as detectives.* When seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever...
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