Hamlet (In Rehearsal)

<p>Donald Freed’s stage version of HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) unearths a buried play within the play within the play in which a guilt-imprisoned state-imprisoned cosmically-imprisoned Hamlet lunges for and ultimately grasps the quietus of freedom. It is an explosively original marvelously creative feat of Nabokovian intellectual acrobatics. Wonderful!<br />Leon Katz Leon Katz’ Edition of the Notebooks of Gertrude Stein Emeritus Professor Yale University</p><p>If Shakespeare had reawakened in the oppressed theater of the 21st century read Beckett watched C N N and had a stiff drink this is the play he would have written.<br />Adam Leipzig producer & dramaturg</p><p>Donald Freed has brought us a completely new concept of Hamlet and a brilliant one. Setting up a rehearsal play to take its place with Buckingham and Michael Frayn he engineers a high level debate/conflict funny and active enough to hold any audience tight. The central impression is of a director beset like Hamlet and a Hamlet with a great deal of the director. They share a predicament fight it out and the audience wins.<br />Edward Pearce Machiavelli’s Children The Great Man The Guardian</p><p>No actor with a pulse could read this play without wanting to get up and do it. Freed takes us into dark corridors between the lines of Shakespeare’s play creating a brilliant met-drama full of theatrical joy startling epiphany and crackling-good language. Unique as can be.<br />Ron Marasco PhD author of Notes to an Actor</p><p>Donald Freed’s HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) is a revelation that rings so true you will wonder why you never thought of it. Freed has trumped his own genius. Amazing!<br />Lorinne Vozoff Artistic Director Theatre Group Studio</p>