Post by Edith S. Baker on Oct 2, 2007 16:25:56 GMT -4
Someone mentioned today that Michael probably played a not so villaneous Claudius in Hamlet. Right on the nail:
Here's the review:
Michael Emerson's several roles (Ghost, Claudius, Guildenstern, Osric) are successful in varying degrees. Least effective is the ghost, played pedestrian and bureaucratic, but this must be the director's vision of the role. Emerson's Claudius is more interesting, although not the slick, smiling villain he is intended to be. Frank Wood's Player king is played against expectations and Stephanie Roth Haberle's Gertrude is youthful and distant. Her Rosencrantz is a goof ball, just like Guildenstern. With all the watching and spying going on, Hamlet can trust only sturdy, white-bread Horatio, a role both lackluster and thankless, but ably played by Haynes Thigpen. Jesse J. Perez comes across a bit stiff as a hotheaded Laertes.
The entire review is here:
www.curtainup.com/hamletnj.html
Here's the review:
Michael Emerson's several roles (Ghost, Claudius, Guildenstern, Osric) are successful in varying degrees. Least effective is the ghost, played pedestrian and bureaucratic, but this must be the director's vision of the role. Emerson's Claudius is more interesting, although not the slick, smiling villain he is intended to be. Frank Wood's Player king is played against expectations and Stephanie Roth Haberle's Gertrude is youthful and distant. Her Rosencrantz is a goof ball, just like Guildenstern. With all the watching and spying going on, Hamlet can trust only sturdy, white-bread Horatio, a role both lackluster and thankless, but ably played by Haynes Thigpen. Jesse J. Perez comes across a bit stiff as a hotheaded Laertes.
The entire review is here:
www.curtainup.com/hamletnj.html
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