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[THEATER REVIEW] HAMLET at Shakespeare and Company
7.15.06
A thinking man's 'Hamlet'
By Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff
LENOX -- Sharply intelligent, lean, and taut, the first main-stage production of "Hamlet" in Shakespeare & Company's 29-year history grapples expertly with many of the play's puzzles. Ultimately, though, this is a "`Hamlet" that speaks more to the head than the heart.
Indeed, in director Eleanor Holdridge's clever conception, it speaks within the head of Hamlet himself: Holdridge explains in her program notes that the production is set "in the electrical synapse impulses of Hamlet's dying brain." It's a stark and steely place, in Edward Check's design -- and a startling one from the first static-filled instant, when the lights go black. With an electric buzz, they snap blindingly back on, then off again, then on, as fragments of famous lines float from the characters, in eclectic modern dress, arranged behind the central figure of Hamlet.
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