Hamlet goes wild in Moscow
Published: 28 January, 2008, 11:01
When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, a play exposing the hypocrisy of Elizabethan England, he chose to set it in Denmark. In a 21st-century version, Russian stage director Nikolay Kolyada drops Shakespeare's tragic prince into a primitive society where people
Kolyada has a name for producing provocotive work. In Hamlet he turns people into wild beasts who can hardly articulate human sounds. Has there been any progress since the Stone Age?, the play seems to ask.
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