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OUTER ELSINORE: A SECOND VISIT TO BARD’S HAMLET

OUTER ELSINORE: A SECOND VISIT TO BARD’S HAMLET

I returned to Bard on the Beach’s Hamlet to see Chirag Naik in the title role. (In a scheduled change, he has taken over from Nadeem Phillip Umar Khitab.) The news isn’t good. Naik overacts, and that exacerbates an underlying problem with director Stephen Drover’s...
HAMLET: Unexpected Elsinore

HAMLET: Unexpected Elsinore

Clarity is both the blessing and the curse of director Stephen Drover’s production of Hamlet — mostly the blessing. I was grateful to have some parts of the story more clearly defined than they’ve ever been for me. But it’s also important to remember that the play is...

2013: Top shows and emerging artists

In this post, I’ll list my top ten from 2013, then I’ll pick out six emerging artists who are particularly promising. BTW, no wonder I love the Fringe Festival: it consistently presents some of the most innovative work we see all season. It does so in the context of a...