I wonder if they'll actually run to May 30.
One suspects not if enough people read that review, believe it, and stay away in droves. :-
(Yay, I'm able to post again!)
Judging from the performance pictures, it looks like *everyone* in the cast was
"Ham(let)ing it up" bigtime. No doubt it can be cool to play Hamlet for laughs, but this apparently was NOT intended or advertised as a parody.
The actress playing Queen Gert bears a resemblance to Julie "She's so statuesque" Newmar in the latter's prime. The Hamlet in question, in the first picture, looks rather like he's about to BITE the fair Ophelia, not merely consigning her to a "nunnery". As for "our" C.P., well, I HOPE his actual performance was more serious than those pix (where he looks more nauseated than terrified or angry) implied.
And if those were the minimalist "sets" (not even a real curtain for Polonius to hide behind)--- well, maybe Signor Vitali should have saved some of his advertising budget and obtained REAL sets.
In CT next month, at a MAJOR theater, there's going to be yet ANOTHER, serious-for-real Hamlet in nihilistic modern dress :- , directed by a Yugoslavian expatriate, as though that fact alone gives it additional legitimacy.
Gaack, for MY money give me the Branagh version, even though HE looked kind of silly with the bleached blond look....
