Thursday, April 29, 2010

PBS Hamlet

Hamlet. Another shiny floor Shakespeare with Dr. Who in the lead! Broadcast on PBS last night. Not to be confused with a chance to see a real live production of "Hamlet" on stage.
Did all this mirror floor stuff get started with Jack Gold's production of Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center? I saw that in about 2005.
I know Alice saw at least two shiny floor Shakespeare plays in London in 2006 during her junior year semester in London. The thing about "The Coast of Utopia" that really set it apart was the hoard of migrating peasants moving through fog on the shiny floor.


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