So, we’ve hit the final hump of our summer Shakespeare season at Woodward Shakespeare Festival with the opening of ‘Hamlet’ this weekend. Again, as I am professionally affiliated with this company I cannot offer a review of the show, but the Bee’s regular reviewer Donald Munro did. And you can read it below– it is quite stellar. Click the title lines below to read the whole thing.
I will be back to reviewing shows in September with Lee Blessings Two Rooms at the Ice House Theatre in Visalia and Noises Off! at the Spotlight in Bakersfield.
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THEATRE REVIEW: ‘HAMLET’
by Donald Munro
The Fresno Bee
Friday, August 15, 2008.
Arlene Schulman, the articulate and industrious director of Woodward Shakespeare Festival’s vibrant new production of “Hamlet,” has compared the play to a “caged leopard” that paces and searches, ready to leap given the slightest opportunity. That’s a perfect way to describe Hamlet himself. The title character is portrayed with a prowling, lithe, snarling obsessiveness by Adam Meredith.. . .
I saw Hamlet last night and thought it was great. I came to include Adam in a photographic project I am working on. He was very generous and accommodating for a portrait after the show.
I wrote about it on my own blog:
http://suggers.blogspot.com/2008/08/hamlet.html
My project to photograph actors in Valley theater productions is in the early stages but so far shows some promise.
I have a flickr set featuring what I have done so far:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craiger66/sets/72157606655198266/
Thanks for this blog! I’m bookmarking it.