by Colin Thomas | Nov 23, 2024 | Review
Well, that was a journey. In Act 1, I admired the performances but was so uninterested in the storytelling that I wrote in my notebook, “Why am I here?” But, by the emotional climax of Act 2, tears were streaming down my face and, when they stopped, I felt cleansed....
by Colin Thomas | Sep 10, 2024 | Review
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...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 25, 2024 | Review
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...