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...line because that fabulous soliloquy is no longer something to be said by a character; it is something to be mouthed by an audience. One can hardly go to a production of Hamlet without sitting in earshot of somebody whispering right along with Hamlet??€™s musings. The worst actors play into this instinct in audiences, trying to win favor by second-guessing their expectations and putting new twists on old lines. But in the end their performance becomes nothing more than a collection of lines. They haven’t even done so much as to interpret...
...transcendent ingenuity; it lies in a deeply affecting humility. Beale’s Hamlet speaks like a man who has heard his own words repeated the world over a thousand different ways and has at last decided to say them himself—simply, straightforwardly, and quietly. This Hamlet??€™s statements are not finished lines; they are the imperfect words that stumble out of a confused, brilliant and deeply saddened mind. There is nothing to be interpreted or reinvented in them, for although these lines are the same that have been said and resaid for the past...
...rose to the sky in a cruel hybrid of prison and cathedral aesthetics and topping it all with a series of candle chandeliers which could retreat to the heights of the theater or lower to ground level singly or in battalions, Hatley effectively literalized the boxed-in nature of Hamlet??€™s privileged world. At the Wilbur, unfortunately, all that remains is a miniaturized version of a set designed for a far larger stage. The actors look packaged rather than contained. Paul Pyant’s lighting still brilliantly illuminates the stage in myriad ways, from morning...