Hamlet (St Ann's Warehouse) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (59)
See it if you'd like Hmlt thru new eyes. Glorious images! Negga's yg-male Hamlet is full of energy/humor. Duffin's Oph soars. Some immersive staging.
Don't see it if you want strg ensemble. Male cast disappoints. Too many males/not enough POC. But fabulous staging/Negga. Memorable. Words clearly spoken.
See it if Great acting with surprisingly wonderfully enunciation. Hamlet played by a woman was seamless. Clever, good looking sets. Enjoyable!
Don't see it if Too traditional. Lacking in creativity or innovation.
Critic Reviews (12)
CRITIC’S PICK. "Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince Yaël Farber’s stunning, Dublin-born interpretation of this eternal classic finds the dizzying layers of performance that rule all our lives."
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4/5 Stars. "Even if you know what lies around each corner of the plot, Farber’s imaginative stagecraft is riveting...Communing with a centuries-old text but vigorously alive in the here and now, this is the rare Shakespeare production that’s more séance than revival."
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"Ruth Negga’s Hamlet Is a Sweet Prince—But It’s Not a Good Night"
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"Ruth Negga makes her American stage debut as the grieving Danish prince in director Yaël Farber's moody take on Shakespeare's timeless tragedy about one man pushing back against corrupt power."
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Grade: B. "Ruth Negga crowns herself a brooding prince in Hamlet."
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"Negga’s sly, shy, but ardent prince feels everything too deeply and responds too sharply; he changes identity and beliefs with a speed that seems callow, but is true to the hormonal churn of being young, gifted, and heroic."
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"Provocative production of ‘Hamlet’ gives noir feel to the classic text."
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"A Gender-Nonconforming Hamlet in Brooklyn: Ruth Negga stars as the famously indecisive Danish prince at St. Ann's Warehouse."
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"This is the rare 'Hamlet' in which everything comes together, vividly realizing the play's fundamental points while providing new and intriguing insights. And in Negga it has arguably the best Hamlet New York has seen in decades."
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3/5 Stars. "Yaël Farber's handsome Gate Theatre production boasts pluses and minuses."
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3/5 Stars. "Oscar nominee Ruth Negga makes a stellar New York stage debut in a somewhat tedious staging of Shakespeare's tragedy."
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"Negga, 38, is an exceptional talent, and she performs with as much stirring intelligence and passion as any equally gifted male actor. If one may be so bold, however, the question must be raised as to whether that's enough to justify her being cast as the Prince of Denmark."
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