Ooh, I actually have that written down somewhere! Back in a sec... (Yes, I like to mark in my playtexts where the various directors put the intervals. I'm That Person. :P)
There we are; assuming nothing was changed between London and Broadway, the interval fell between 3.1 and 3.2.
I'm confident the text was not performed in its entirety, 'cos
Hamlet is BLOODY long when it is (see 1996 movie, aka
Kenneth Branagh Shouting on a Snowy Clifftop for Four Hours), but there weren't any hugely noticeable cuts (and it was a bit of a while back) so I'm afraid I can't be specific.
Possibly it would have been uncut if Branagh had directed, as initially planned, but Michael Grandage took over, and he's very sweet about neatly trimming texts so they lose none of their meaning but maintain plenty of momentum. :)
Updated On: 1/25/11 at 05:23 PM
