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Jan 10, 2014
50
A modestly inventive but curiously bloodless version of the Bard’s timeless tragedy.
Jan 16, 2014
50
A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart.
Jan 7, 2014
40
Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament.
Jan 9, 2014
40
While Mr. Ramsay accomplishes some kind of a trick in streamlining the play, his trimming of corners feels more like a taking away of the center.
Jan 13, 2014
30
Ultimately, there’s little to distinguish the proceedings other than their brevity. By the time the piece reaches its familiar death-strewn conclusion, with guns taking the place of swords, it has come to seem like little more than an ill-conceived exercise.
Jan 9, 2014
20
This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.
