Vancouver Hamlet, A New Canadian Play
1986; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 49; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/ctr.49.017
ISSN1920-941X
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoThe audience sits on chairs and sofas in the basement of a house. Here even dishes are shrouded in ripped dustcloths and the walls are pockmarked with death-masks: they say this place is haunted. A bloodied and bandaged musician (composer Jeff Corness) looms over a computer to conjure lugubrious airs from keyboard and synthesizer. Suddenly the lights go out. The music stops. Hold my hand. Someone is breaking through the window. It’s a boy in a black leather jacket playing Motley Crue on his blaster. The beam of his flashlight catches a ghoulish Hamlet (Morris Panych) grieving for his father. Hamlet mistakes the kid, Jimmy “Spider” McEwen (Tim Battle), for his most beloved friend Horatio. And when Spider plays along, the whole audience is “welcomed” to a ghostly Elsinore.
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