Hamlet- Shakespeare in the Park

[supersam1026]

Posted: 6/15/23 at 12:19am

Has anyone seen it yet? How's the show? How's the line looking?

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 6/15/23 at 2:54am

As with last year, they've been posting that they have extra tickets pretty late in the day. Thinking about going on Sunday and curious about what the line will be like on a normal weekend day. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/15/23 at 7:31am

jkcohen626 said: "As with last year, they've been posting that they have extra tickets pretty late in the day. Thinking about going on Sunday and curious about what the line will be like on a normal weekend day."

I imagine tickets to this will be easy to get throughout the day. On top of the fact that there are no celebrities in the cast, it’s a 2-month run, so there’s less of a dash to see it before it closes a week and a half after officially opening.

[Gypsy_Mamma<3]

Posted: 6/16/23 at 11:04am

Pacing is all over the place and it needs significant work. 1/4th of the audience left at intermisson. 

[LarryD2]

Posted: 6/16/23 at 5:08pm

Gypsy_Mamma said: "Pacing is all over the place and it needs significant work. 1/4th of the audience left at intermisson."

What is the running time at the moment?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 6/16/23 at 5:36pm

Gypsy_Mamma said: "Pacing is all over the place and it needs significant work. 1/4th of the audience left at intermisson."

I agree, it was kind of a mess. I didn't leave but much of my row did. I hope it tightens up. 

 

 

[Gypsy_Mamma<3]

Posted: 6/16/23 at 6:10pm

Let out around 11:10p on Tuesday, stalled slightly during the first ten minutes by an audience emergency. Someone seemed to go unconscious in the middle section, and a women shouted at the stage to please stop and call a medic. Many medical professionals in the audience jumped up to assist and he was escorted out seemingly fine. The show resumed after 3-5 minutes. 

[lila12]

Posted: 6/16/23 at 7:36pm

I was also there Tuesday. Hard agree that it’s a messy production and didn’t enjoy it which was a bummer. No trouble at all with tickets - tons of empty seats and confirming many people walked out early. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 7/13/23 at 1:26am

Anyone been lately? Hearing no buzz on this.

[Ernest_Shackleton]

Posted: 7/13/23 at 10:23am

I was there last night and it was unfortunately disappointing. It pulled out every trope people use when they're trying to "modernize" Shakespeare without really understanding them and while the performers are all strong the direction is all over the place so there's very little emotional through line. Honestly it made me wish Fat Ham (which weirdly it seems to crib from at times) was still running so that I could just go back and see that again 

[Voter]

Posted: 7/13/23 at 4:48pm

Ernest_Shackleton said: "I was there last night and it was unfortunately disappointing. It pulled out every trope people use when they're trying to "modernize" Shakespeare without really understanding them and while the performers are all strong the direction is all over the place so there's very little emotional through line. Honestly it made me wish Fat Ham (which weirdly it seems to crib from at times) was still running so that I could just go back and see that again"

Kenny Leon needs to take a break and they need to bring a new director in. Everything I've seen from him in the last two years has been tired or underrehearsed.

[Jumpin_J]

Posted: 7/14/23 at 7:27pm

Full disclosure: Not a Kenny Leon fan at all. That being said, I've heard it's a mess. Reviews haven't been good. You also don't start the play with "To be or not to be" when people know it comes later in the play. He's also recycling his set from Much Ado which people who haven't seen last year is out of context. 

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 7/14/23 at 7:47pm

Every choice they made with this production has just been so strange with the sole exception of that awesome art. Why do we need Hamlet again? Why do we need Kenny Leon again? 

 

[bettyco]

Posted: 7/14/23 at 7:51pm

Ernest_Shackleton said: "I was there last night and it was unfortunately disappointing. It pulled out every trope people use when they're trying to "modernize" Shakespeare without really understanding them and while the performers are all strong the direction is all over the place so there's very little emotional through line. Honestly it made me wish Fat Ham (which weirdly it seems to crib from at times) was still running so that I could just go back and see that again"

The astroturf on stage made me think of Fat Ham immediately the whole show just made me wish I was watching that again.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 7/14/23 at 7:57pm

jkcohen626 said: "Every choice they made with this production has just been so strange with the sole exception of that awesome art. Why do we need Hamlet again? Why do we need Kenny Leon again?”

 

I mean….questioning why someone is staging Hamlet again is a losing battle.

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 8:30pm

Any updates on the line? Do you think if I get there around 1 or 2pm tomorrow I'll be able to get tickets for the 8pm show tomorrow (Friday, July 28th)  Thanks for any insights!

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 8:34pm

You can probably show up any time and get tickets.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 9:24pm

Phantom4ever said: "Any updates on the line? Do you think if I get there around 1 or 2pm tomorrow I'll be able to get tickets for the 8pm show tomorrow (Friday, July 28th) Thanks for any insights!"

I lined up at 10 for the noon distribution yesterday and easily got 4 seats together with a friend. The show was sold out by showtime with a pretty long standby line, but there may still be seats available around 1.

I thought the show was pretty good! Maybe my expectations were low, although the pacing in act 2 lagged, but I thought it was one of the better productions I’ve seen in the park in the last decade plus. I’ve never seen a production of Hamlet that I haven’t wanted to cut at least a half hour from though.

[MikeFarrell]

Posted: 9/7/23 at 12:43pm

When I was there, the situation was the same. There were not many people at all, and the half left. I stayed till the end, but I can't say that I received a lot of pleasure. I like Hamlet a lot, and I always try to visit all the performances. And the next week is the deadline for my uno paper about Hamlet, so I'll have a chance to write more. I also came across this page https://edubirdie.com/examples/hamlet/, which provides many useful and interesting examples that will certainly help me. And I can't wait for the student performance next month, and I think it will be something amazing. Updated On: 9/20/23 at 12:43 PM

[jakethesnake]

Posted: 9/7/23 at 6:04pm

MikeFarrell said: "When I was there, the situation was the same. There were not many people at all, and the half left. I stayed till the end, but I can't say that I received a lot of pleasure"

Thank you for this very helpful response posted almost a month after the show closed.