Summary
Like the solitary gannet fishing offshore for its supper, so Dominic Dromgoole, director of the Globe Theatre's touring production of Hamlet, doesn't hang about but dives straight into his Shakespeare to come up with a trimmed down but very acceptable two and a half hour version of this sorry tale of "carnal, bloody and unnatural acts".
It is not much to look at: spectacle is severely rationed, with designer Jonathan Fensom giving us an Elsinore about as comfortable as a carpenter's shop and dressing its inhabitants in costumes as workmanlike and drab as the storyline is dismal. But what colour there is comes from the two dozen and more characters played by the eight members of the cast, all of whom, apart from the eponymous hero, nobly double and treble up with speed and conviction. Then there are the Bard''s words which, thankfully, are spoken loudly and clearly, plus a little light music and song, an amusing grave- digging scene with "poor Yorick", and not forgetting a splendid red curtain which helps in a neat presentation of the play within the play.See the full content of this document
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; Frank Ruhrmund's Minack Theatre Review
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