6/22/2023 0 Comments At face value by emily franklin![]() A brother kills a brother, and it’s not good, and the children suffer as a result.” Beyond its atavistic appeal, the play is “written really, really well. On a video call, Ijames (whose last name rhymes with “times”) observes that one reason for Hamlet’s enduring popularity is that “it’s a primordial story at its core. The offerings were as wildly different in tone as in theme: Icke’s version played up the surveillance aspect, while Ijames’s award-winning Fat Ham jettisoned much of the tragedy, transposing the action to a backyard barbecue and wedding reception in North Carolina. Last summer, New York alone offered three fresh takes: a modern-dress version by Robert Icke at the Park Avenue Armory, an opera at the Met Opera, and a comedic, queer take by James Ijames at the Public Theater. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare’s Hamlet has long attracted a proliferation of interpretations, an ever-expanding Punnett square of possibilities. ![]()
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