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Hamlet. A Version
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Set in a crumbling hierarchical empire, HAMLET. A VERSION shifts the usual focus from the iconic philosophical title character to the intrigue, opportunism, and political scheming of a burgeoning police state.
This starkly realized new world order, insidiously ushered in by murderous and destabilizing tactics, provides a whole new meaning to the phrase
‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’

From a curiously flat-footed Hamlet and a self-aggrandizing ‘Polonius the First’, to the questionable death of the old king and a torrid affair between Gertrude and Claudius, Boris Akunin’s HAMLET. A VERSION provides a radically prescient perspective on a contemporary political issue: how to eradicate the old to make way for the new.
But who gets caught in the crossfire?

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Review: Hamlet. A Version

By Erin Kahn

It takes some guts to rewrite what is possibly the most revered play of all time: Hamlet. Even when Tom Stoppard played around with Shakespeare’s masterpiece in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he didn’t mess with the original dialogue, but built around it. In Hamlet. A Version (directed by Irina Gachechiladze), Boris Akunin has no such reservations. Akunin, widely known in Russia for his works of detective fiction, doesn’t entirely discard Shakespeare’s original, retaining a line or two here and there, and keeping mainly to the original plot – but nor does he stubbornly follow the text. Akunin reworks Hamlet to such a degree that it becomes a new story, with new dialogue, new characterizations, and new takeaways. You might expect a rewrite of Hamlet to be disappointing, totally pointless, and not worth your time. And, prior to seeing Akunin’s Hamlet. A Version, I probably would have agreed with you. But we would both be wrong. Akunin’s script is dazzling, and his new (or should we say alternate?) Hamlet is a breathtaking journey: full of wit, humor, tragedy, and twists. If you go in expecting to see a purist staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, you might be disappointed. But if …Read more


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