Hamlet Reviews

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Newest Review: ... of his generation" or "the new Olivier"...and this has often coincided with them taking on the part of Hamlet. And Simon Russell Beale is the latest to inherit the mantle (or is it a poisoned chalice...?) For a rather unprepossessing, squat little man, he has incredible stage presence. He pulls in all the disparate threads of Hamlet's personality which I mentioned above, ... more
Customer Hamlet Reviews (1)

by - written on 11/07/01, updated on 11/07/01 (Very useful, 175 readings)
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The first thing I'll say is - bloomin' 'eck! Can I REALLY be the only person yet to write a dooyoo op on this? After all...we are talking about arguably the greatest and most well-known play EVER... And yet in a way I guess we take "Hamlet" for granted: we can all quote lines or passages (more or less accurately!), it certainly looms large in our collective cultural consciousness, but, discounting the Mel Gibson and Branagh versions, how many of us have actually seen it performed? Well, the last time I saw it was when I was IN it at school. We used to put on a different Shakespeare play every summer, and the teacher in charge of ... Read the complete review
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