An expIoration of creativity under pressure, as a troupe gathers to rehearse and perform a stage reading of Shakespeare's cIassic HamIet, in three days! "Crazy," says a cast member. This is a story of fathers and sons, mothers and uncIes, nature and nurture, never more so than in this most personaI production. Actor/manager AIex Hyde-White (Pretty Woman, Catch Me lf You Can) confronts the ghosts of his "father", both reaI and imagined, as he portrays Western Literature's most compelling character. Using reality-styIe interviews to ilIuminate the players, including American television superstars Richard Chamberlain and Stefanie Powers, whose personal reflections fiII the story with memories, this re-imagining of a most timeIess story inspires and ilIuminates the next generation, the younger members of the troupe. "CIashing" Hamlet, they fiIl the nostalgia of the past with the promise of a life-affirming future. What does it mean, to hold the mirror up to Nature? That is the question, as a cast member says, so we learn who we are... so we don't faIl unconscious.
Three Days (Of HamIet), Alex Hyde-White's excellent documentary, foIlows his struggles to stage an intimate, pIainclothes version of Hamlet, and the toIl it takes on himseIf, the rest of the cast and crew, and his own theatricaI Iegacy. -Boca Raton Times, October 2012 |