Making a stunning American stage debut in the title role of 'Hamlet,' RuthNegga invigorates Shakespeare's timeless tragedy about one man pushing back against corrupt power. Read THR's review:
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In this new dark age of flagrant misrule, with unscrupulous world leaders surrounded by spineless enablers in decaying institutions, Farber's lucid interpretation taps into a rich vein of current despair without the need to clobber us over the head by forcing contemporary parallels. Farber conveys the fresh wound of Hamlet's grief by bringing out the corpse of his father draped in a diaphanous shroud. The gurney is wheeled on by three bowler-hatted stagehands, Beckettian figures who echo Ireland's deep historic connection to Shakespeare.
There's nothing gimmicky about the casting, and despite some homoerotic flirting between Hamlet and the opportunistic Rosencrantz and Guildernstern , Negga's gender becomes mostly immaterial to the performance. Yet the tenderness between Hamlet and Ophelia is more exquisitely wrought than I've ever seen it.
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