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April 13, 2007

Boy Wonder

2007

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company

and Queensland Theatre Company

April 3. Dunstan Playhouse. Until April 21

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The main task with Hamlet is to make him come alive. Whatever the leanings in interpretation  – that he be older or younger, bookish scholar or renaissance cleverboots, devious or bi-polar – Hamlet has to engage us in his bid to unmask a murder conspiracy, even though he says, and does, things which don’t add up. This …

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April 05, 2007

Dazzling sketches don’t measure up to tragedy

2007

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company of South Australia
And Queensland Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 3. Tickets: $17-$ 60. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 21, 2007

A new version of Hamlet is the chance to see the latest plausible hypothesis. The Dane, after all, is a most enigmatic fellow and the task of both actor and director is to present him, from the ghost scene to the endgame duel, as if all …

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