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Hamlet

Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s shadowy and romantic Hamlet
Melbourne Shakespeare Company
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ABR Arts 09 September 2024

Hamlet

Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s shadowy and romantic Hamlet
Melbourne Shakespeare Company
by
ABR Arts 09 September 2024
Jacob Collins-Levy as Hamlet (photograph by Ben Andrews, The Maybe Pile)
Jacob Collins-Levy as Hamlet (photograph by Ben Andrews, The Maybe Pile)

Watching the denouement of Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet, I was reminded of David Edgar’s 1980 stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Ensconced within the travelling theatrical company of Mr Vincent Crummles, Nicholas and his hapless companion Smike are cast in a production of Romeo and Juliet, Smike as the apothecary and Nicholas (of course) as Romeo.

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Comment (1)

  • I saw this production today. It felt very disjointed and either atonal or tonally jarring. It's a relief to read a review that's willing to be bracingly honest about the machine-like delivery of large sections of verse, the many inexplicable production choices, and the utter lack of tragedy in the closing scene. I walked out feeling a sense of relief it was over.
    Posted by Muntz
    15 September 2024

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