←Recommendations of Save Hamlet! (a full length play)

  • Eric Pfeffinger: Save Hamlet! (a full length play) by Mark Harvey Levine
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    The playwright knows how to write a joke, and every minute brings a new laugh. If that were all Save Hamlet! did, it would be more than enough. But by empowering its secondary characters to undermine and derail the source material the play also raises questions about authority, and literary conventions, and political power, and gender dynamics. Verily 'tis a hoot and a half.

    The playwright knows how to write a joke, and every minute brings a new laugh. If that were all Save Hamlet! did, it would be more than enough. But by empowering its secondary characters to undermine and derail the source material the play also raises questions about authority, and literary conventions, and political power, and gender dynamics. Verily 'tis a hoot and a half.

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  • Doug DeVita: Save Hamlet! (a full length play) by Mark Harvey Levine
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    Oh, this is SO. MUCH. FUN! As author Mark Harvey Levine says in his synopsis, "it's Shakespeare's famous play, but funnier and with less stabbing." But it is so much more than that: it's a smart, inventive, hilarious, and actually quite faithful spoof of HAMLET, and it stands on its own as a delightful piece of theatre on its own quite substantial merits. Oh, how I would love to see this staged!

    Oh, this is SO. MUCH. FUN! As author Mark Harvey Levine says in his synopsis, "it's Shakespeare's famous play, but funnier and with less stabbing." But it is so much more than that: it's a smart, inventive, hilarious, and actually quite faithful spoof of HAMLET, and it stands on its own as a delightful piece of theatre on its own quite substantial merits. Oh, how I would love to see this staged!

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