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Discovering Hamlet (1990)
Branagh as Hamlet
30 August 2005 - 0 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
I saw this production of _Hamlet_ in London in late 1988. I had never heard of Kenneth Branagh then--nor Sir Derek Jacobi for that matter! I was an American English major beginning a junior year abroad in England, and I had the quaint idea that I'd spend my first night in London seeing _Hamlet_. It's safe to say I was not the most sophisticated member of the audience, so I won't hazard any evaluations of the production.
What I do remember vividly is that the play was radically edited. They didn't do the "To be or not to be" soliloquy at all, and some of the lines were re-allocated to different characters. Peter O'Toole, who was sitting two rows in front of me, shook his head in disapproval quite a few times during the play.
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