Minnesota Shakespeare Company Presents HAMLET, 1/8-31, 2010

The Minnesota Shakespeare Company celebrates its fortieth year with William Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet. Directed by Mikel Clifford and featuring Nick James as Hamlet, and Rob Gardner as Claudius, the show opens Friday, January 8th, 2010, and plays Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00 PM, and Sundays at 6:00 PM through January 31st at the Lowry Lab Theatre in the Lowry Building at 350 St. Peter St., St. Paul 55102. There is no performance Friday, January 29th.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a new man of the Renaissance, seen in opposition to the old feudalists. He is a student intellectual, oppressed by an older generation whose lives are governed by political expediency and by military force. Hamlet is an aristocrat, who has rebelled against his class by going to a forward-looking University, by making friends with commoners, by falling love with a politician's daughter, and by hanging around with actors. He is inflamed by the compromises and duplicities of the adult world. Hamlet charts one of the great rites of passage: from immaturity to accommodation with death.

Hamlet repeatedly considers our mortality, our sensuality, what constitutes and deserves our loyalty, and the Christian religion as interpreted in England, circa 1600. The religion of his Age is more frequently described, discussed, and acknowledged in Hamlet than in any other of Shakespeare's plays. It was a time when religion could embrace a belief in ghosts, as well belief that the crowing of a rooster governed ghosts' appearances.

Preview performances are Wednesday, January 6th and Thursday, January 7th, at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are $20 for Performances and previews are $15, with checks and cash accepted. There is a parking discount for the Lowry Building Garage (Entrance on Wabasha).

For reservations, email: minnesotashakes@gmail.com or call 651-786-9102. Kindly include your phone number, preferred date, number of tickets. Group rates available for 6 or more.
For more information, visit minnesotashakes.blogspot.com.

 

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