CCM“™s “Hamlet” is Strong and New
Review by Shawn Maus of Hamlet: CCM Acting Any staging of Hamlet has an enormous responsibility: engagement with Shakespeare“™s text, clarity or confusion about place,
October 2, 2017
Review by Shawn Maus of Hamlet: CCM Acting Any staging of Hamlet has an enormous responsibility: engagement with Shakespeare“™s text, clarity or confusion about place,
Mr. Chace’s villainy is perfection: exhibited clearly while still maintaining brilliant restraint, somehow making Iago even more sinister.
The actors are succeeding in exactly what the play demands: exposing the ugliness beneath carefully constructed civility.
From the beginning, the emotions are so palpable that the language almost became secondary.