Ophelia

...been renamed this year in honour of the late film and theatre actress Natasha Richardson. Richardson's London stage roles included Ophelia in Hamlet at the Young Vic and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's...

In this article: Lenny Henry, Enron, Juliet Stevenson, Rachel Weisz, Natasha Richardson, London, Jerusalem, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet

...by, as if in awe of the star. I expect better of Geraldine James, playing Gertrude. The most embarrassing is Guqu Mbatha Raw, whose Ophelia seems to have wandered in from a college production. Only the veteran Ron Cook holds up his end,...

In this article: Hamlet, Broadway, Tracy Letts, Michael McKean, Polonius, London, Jude Law, Julia Stiles, Hugh Jackman, and Daniel Craig

...moving eye, discovers that his former chaste love Ophelia has turned lustful and often vengeful as she controls the TV remote. Ophelia's brother Laertes may be so dense that he doesn't realize he's dead. Fortinbras wants to ally...

In this article: Hamlet, Fortinbras, Fortinbras, Laertes, Horatio, William Shakespeare, Polonius, and King Claudius

...literary sensibilities. Hamlet performs a pivotal scene naked, Polonius literally rips off Ophelia's panties to check if Hamlet has been dallying with her, Claudius makes his first entrance wearing a gorilla mask and sexually...

In this article: Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, William Shakespeare, and Laertes

This weekend, I was at Hamlet and an elderly woman in the next row whispered loudly, "do Hamlet and Ophelia get married?" A rarity in our spoiler-troubled times! Lately, spoiler alerts - or lack thereof - have been raising hackles: This is...

In this article: Hamlet, DVD, Spencer Tracy, Hulu, NPR, January Jones, and Mad Men

...Sarah Bernhardt and John Barrymore, and their theatrical descendants: Sir Lawrence, Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Kline whose Ophelia, Diane Verona, would go on to play Ethan Hawke's Gertrude, and of course, the current Hamlet,...

In this article: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, New York City, Tom Stoppard, Guildenstern, Derivative, and Gertrude

...Tomtom Suites in Istanbul By SETH SHERWOOD, The New York Times Admittedly, "Get thee to a nunnery," Hamlet's famous insult to Ophelia, doesn't sound like much of a slogan for a hospitality business. But turn it into a fun-loving...

In this article: Istanbul, Gruyere cheese, Bread, Hamlet, DVD, Istiklal Caddesi, Asia, and Europe

...former convent not far from Istanbul's center of night life. Admittedly, "Get thee to a nunnery," Hamlet's famous insult to Ophelia, doesn't sound like much of a slogan for a hospitality business. But turn it into a fun-loving...

In this article: Istanbul, Gruyere cheese, Bread, Hamlet, DVD, Istiklal Caddesi, Asia, and Europe

...suggested that a school friend of cast member Jess Borgeson - who was playing the lead -fill in for her in drag. Adam Long's performance as Ophelia and Gertrude received high praise and enjoyed a large following of fans. Since its 1981...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Daniel Singer, London, Hamlet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Gertrude

...ditheriness of Ron Cook's Polonius has a mechanical, calculating quality. And while Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ophelia is fine in her early scenes she's earthbound and sensible she plays her eventual madness as flightiness, as if she'd merely misplaced...

In this article: Hamlet, Carrie Fisher, In the Heights, Eddie Fisher, and Lincoln Center Theater