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Hamlet . . . The rest is silence
Synetic Theater, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2005
There was something I didn't understand. At the finale, after fulfilling his promise and killing Claudius, rather than dying on-stage, Hamlet stumbles up-stage and out of the fading light. As the darkness approaches completion, Hamlet charges back into view and hurls an empty hand at a frame falling fast from above. The frame is spattered with what appears to be a bit of blood and guts, some "coagulate gore." And then the rest really is silence.
What was the frame? And what precisely did Hamlet throw at it?
I don't know. I really don't care.
I also don't care that Synetic tampered with some crucial plot points, including amplifying Ophelia's pursuit of Hamlet, inserting a sequence in...