Yesterday, October 19, 2005, I went to see William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Directed by Dr. Mikell Pinkney at the Nadine McGuire Pavilion Black Box. This is the second Shakespeare play I’ve seen at UF’s College of Fine Arts and I think that they did an excellent job.
I hadn’t read Hamlet before, which I know is kinda pathetic, but it was cool because I didn’t know what to expect. I knew that Hamlet would be haunted by his father’s death but that is pretty much all the knowledge I’d collected about this particular play.
Joshua Price played Prince Hamlet. I think that he did an excellent job. Especially when Hamlet went mad, I found it very amusing. My other favorite characters were Ophelia, played by Alison Miller (she was also in a Midsummer Night’s Dream,) and Lord Polonius who was played by Holan Carey.
The costumes and set were also amazing. They had stairs and the top of the stage wrapped around the sides so that they could go off stage. The stage was also very small and very close. The actors/actresses did an excellent job keeping the audience’s attention.
Hamlet was my first tragedy. This was my second play at the College of Fine Arts and I’m very interested in seeing more plays that they do. This season looks a little dull but maybe if I go see a few plays they will surprise me.
