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...students performed an energetic—if slapdash—rendition of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet?? last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. With no auditions or rehearsals, the students brandished impromptu props like a plastic skull, originally a Halloween decoration, that stood in for “Poor Yorick” and a blown-up rubber glove with a hand-drawn face that impersonated the ghost of Hamlet??s father. Actors drew parts randomly from a bowl, before each scene, to give them the opportunity to play more...
...says. “There may be a way in which verse is closer to the subject of experience, the stream of consciousness that we live in all the time without listening to it. We are all in the middle of giant soliloquies, compared to which ‘Hamlet?? is nothing...
Hodgson and Broadwater star as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, respectively, taking on two of contemporary theater’s most celebrated antiheros. Stoppard’s black comedy and one of his most popular works to date, follows Hamlet??s hapless and disoriented friends who wander through the Danish court, between England and their imminent death—in events that seem always controlled by forces beyond their control...
After the initial scene between Horatio and Saxo, the audience sees Horatio conspire with the Player. He pays the Player to dress up as the ghost of Hamlet??s dead father and convince him of the treachery of Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Thus, Horatio becomes the driving force behind Hamlet??s suspicion and actions. Horatio soon reveals that he is the bastard son of Gertrude, and is jealous of his half-brother’s position of power and favor in the family. His ultimate goal is to see Hamlet into the throne...
Indeed, the comic relief itself is another asset to A Counterfeit Presentment. Hamlet??s humorous scenes are made even better by the way that the actors present themselves. Expressions, costumes and mannerisms often elicit laughter from the audience and bring some levity to the tragic atmosphere. One especially entertaining scene involves Horatio and two sailors, who are the quintessential embodiments of pirates, even down to the traditional “Argh!” and piratical accent...