The production’s grab-bag approach to grieving is an unfortunate stumble in what is otherwise a compelling reframing
where you want to check your digital program. Is this the tragedy by William Shakespeare that we’re watching? Or is it Hamlet by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?
Qasim Khan as Hamlet with Raquel Duffy as the Queen and Diego Matamoros as Claudius .We can see that here: Qasim Khan’s Hamlet, in deep mourning for his late father, seeks closure by avenging his murder. Beck Lloyd’s Ophelia, devastated by the death of her own father, Polonius , loses her sanity. Her grieving brother Laertes , meanwhile, is reduced to a blind rage, his own thirst for vengeance leading to the play’s bloody climax.
Khalilieh, however, resists the urge to go broad with a pleasingly nuanced portrayal of the king’s advisor Polonius. Instead of the logorrheic old fool he is sometimes made out to be, Khalilieh plays him as a loving if fussy middle-aged dad.and a likeable Tesman in Coal Mine Theatre’sthis past season, brings some sharper angles to his Hamlet. He bristles with bitter wit and gives a cool, concise recital of the great “To be or not to be” soliloquy, which Carmichael has happily left intact.
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