Hamlet
From: Thursday, 8th December 2011
To: Saturday, 17 December 2011
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Synopsis
Written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Our Review:
13 December 2011
Stepping nervously forward into the dark to the sound of drums and cymbal crashes, anticipation muddles with the damp, rank smell of a crypt before the action begins. And boy, is there a lot of action – it is after all a virtually uncut three-and-a-half-hour version of Hamlet. Underground. In a crypt.
Once your eyes have adjusted to the gloomy lights and flickering candles, and your nose to the foist, you’re presented with a more familiar sight performed, as Tom Radcliffe’s Hamlet is, in sumptuously traditional costume.
Here the conventional ends, as it’s not a traditional space by any means and the Actors Temple company attempt to make good use of it, shepherding the audience through the crypt, following the ghosts in Hamlet’s head to the inevitable grisly finish.
With Pete Radcliffe’s atmospheric percussion and some nattily done lighting, it’s not just the temperature under ground that sends chills down ...
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Actors' Temple Company (Company)
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