McCraney's Streamlined Hamlet Embraces The Music of the Bard by Bill Hirschman

The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney's streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure if distilled Shakespeare. It honors the music of the Bard's language, but places an equal premium on actors communicating a line's meaning rather than being mindlessly captive to the poetry.

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