From the email I just got:One Week til Hamlet!!Apollinaire in the Park ( Read more... )

This year is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and ASP is doing a bunch of popular plays this coming season -- plus a Marlowe play.

From their website:Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Doug Lockwood
October 5 - November 6, 2016Shakespeare’s most iconic work, “Hamlet” explodes with big ideas but at the center is a story of ( Read more... )

So, last night, Lis and I drove up to the University of New Hampshire to see their performance of "The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke by William Shake-speare. As it hath beene diuerse times acted by his Highnesse seruants in the cittie of London: as also in the two vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where ( Read more... )

[Crossposted to riba_rambles]

Hamlet, as we know it, was first printed in 1604.

But a year earlier, another version of the play, also credited to Shakespeare, was printed. And this one isn't quite so familiar.

To be, or not to be, I there's the point,
To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all:
No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes,

This version is ( Read more... )

• Tonight (Wednesday):
  • 7 pm: Hamlet (bad quarto) @ UNH
• Tomorrow (Thursday):
  • 7 pm: Hamlet (bad quarto) @ UNH
  • 7 pm: Titus Andronicus @ Wellesley

Several dates (October 29, November 3 & 5) already Sold Out

Besides the reviews already posted or linked in this community, the professional press has been weighing in:

• Boston Herald: Duo saves 'Hamlet' from being a true tragedy
• Boston Phoenix: Players' prince
• Cambridge Chronicle: ASP's 'Hamlet' needs to grow up
• Boston Globe: In a ghostly setting, a ' ( Read more... )

Running from November 8 - 12
Details @ http://www.unh.edu/theatre-dance/productions.html

"To be or not to be, aye there's the point...The earliest published edition of Hamlet is known as the "bad quarto" because it's much shorter and the language is very different. ( Read more... )

I won't repost the entire thing, but here's a direct link to the review on riba_rambles

Hamlet

by Actors' Shakespeare Project

Strand Theatre in Dorchester
543 Columbia Road (Directions)

Thursdays - Sundays @ 7:30 pm (plus 2pm weekend matinees) through November 12 (Schedule)
 Runs for 3 hours 45 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission; a hazer is used.
  ( Read more... )

The Actor's Shakespeare Project opened their third season this past Thursday, with Hamlet, starring founding member Ben Evett in the title role. Other veterans included Marya Lowry as Gertrude, Sarah Newhouse as Guildenstern, and a couple minor roles, and Ken Cheeseman as the ghost, the Player King, and the gravedigger. Many of the other roles ( Read more... )

In the last 18 months, multiple Massachusetts Shakespeare companies have done Hamlet.

What could be more cool than getting the groups together to compare approaches and discuss the play?

No two productions of a Shakespeare play are alike -- especially a play as rich in meaning and feeling as Hamlet. Actors' Shakespeare Project has organized a rare ( Read more... )