A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart.
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Village VoiceChris Packham
Village VoiceChris Packham
Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament.
Ultimately, there’s little to distinguish the proceedings other than their brevity. By the time the piece reaches its familiar death-strewn conclusion, with guns taking the place of swords, it has come to seem like little more than an ill-conceived exercise.
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.