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Los Angeles Times by Annlee Ellingson
A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart.
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Village Voice by Chris Packham
Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Ultimately, there’s little to distinguish the proceedings other than their brevity. By the time the piece reaches its familiar death-strewn conclusion, with guns taking the place of swords, it has come to seem like little more than an ill-conceived exercise.
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A modestly inventive but curiously bloodless version of the Bard’s timeless tragedy.
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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.
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The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
While Mr. Ramsay accomplishes some kind of a trick in streamlining the play, his trimming of corners feels more like a taking away of the center.