April 03, 2006
Teenage Angst
I attended a performance of Hamlet at the Guthrie last Friday. This is the last play to be performed on the Guthrie's original stage before moving to its new facility in the fall. This particular interpretation employed a World War II theme in which the men wore suits and tuxedos with tails and the women wore dresses and big hats. It wasn't the most original reimagining and the director added a few lines to elicit laughs from the audience, but the lead actor was appropriately manic and brooding. Now, I feel like picking up an annotated collection of Shakespeare's plays to go over the phrases whose meanings were more obscure. I took an entire semester of Shakespearean lit in college and I had this great hardcover anthology, but unfortunately I borrowed it from a friend because I was too cheap to buy it.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at April 3, 2006 08:46 PM