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Ophelia and Hamlet are first seen enjoying a goofy, groovy, flirtatious dance together. The final duel is played as a wordless, lethal pas de deux with music thrashing behind. Christine Jones is ...
Most challenging scene to stage: The duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Scala: “We had two whole (three-hour) rehearsals just doing the fight choreography for that.” The cast’s favorite line ...
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the ...
His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The tension rises, culminating in a fateful duel between Hamlet and Laertes, a duel whose outcome leads to tragedy for all. Actors ...
While Hamlet carries out his revenge plot to fruition, he dies in a duel just like Rick, with both of them throwing away the love they had to avenge their father. Unlike the Hamlet plot ...
“I Hate Hamlet” features physical moments like a duel between Rally and Barrymore, plus a waltz from McDavey. To bring these elements to the readers theater production, Brathovde has enlisted ...
Now the gender-fluid grand dame is back in a solo “Hamlet,” a brisk sprint through the iconic Shakespearean tragedy. Alas, there’s little room in this tragic masterpiece for Izzard’s ...
As Radiohead and the RSC launch an innovative reinterpretation of Hamlet, a visit to the play's setting in Denmark brings a new dimension to the tragedy. There's a cold wind blowing from the ...
Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr on a February morning in 1807, on a muddy road near the hamlet of Wakefield ... Hamilton in a duel. Vice President Burr's political ...