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To do or not to do anotherHamlet:That is too rarely the question.
Even those who should hesitate cant resist.
The angle here has to do with surveillance.
), so sound designer Tom Gibbons fills the air with a throbbing horror-movie whine.
Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
Polonius experiences dementia in one instant he loses language entirely and then, whatever, that never happens again.
At this point, Claudius gives him a come at me bro shrug and wanders out.
You will be surprised to learn that this event is never mentioned again.
Back in London, this thing must have worked, and theres an obvious change that explains the difference.
He does not get the message.)
But Lawthers last soliloquy is delivered at the same glacial, meandering pace as his first.
Hes neither deranged nor clever nor wrong nor right.
No thought kindles among those damp logs.
There is a Hamlet somewhere in Lawther, though.
Lawthers pampered affluenza-princeling is frail and gun-obsessed; sulky and handsy with girls, sneaky and evasive around men.
Both his stunned, unlistening quality and his condescending tone when he delivers his lecture monologues certainly feel familiar.
(Frailty, thy name is woman.Change my mind.)
Could he be an incel Hamlet?
Did he get radicalized on YouTube by Ghost-Anon?
The same costume makes Lawther look like a fifth-grader on field day.
Hamlet is not the only person inHamlet, of course.
Alone among the principals, Jennifer Ehles Gertrude manages to seem warm, capable of surprise and dawning thought.
Theater is a little like vengeance, in this way its easiest when the blood is hot.
Hamletis at the Park Avenue Armory through August 13.
