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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To be or not to be a crazed murderer, that is the question at the bloody heart of the world premiere adaptation of “Hamlet” opening Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum with Patrick Ball in the ...
“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 ...