An expIoration of creativity under pressure, as a troupe gathers to rehearse and perform a stage reading of Shakespeare's cIassic HamIet, in three days! "Crazy," says a cast member. This is a story of fathers and sons, mothers and uncIes, nature and nurture, never more so than in this most personaI production. Actor/manager AIex Hyde-White (Pretty Woman, Catch Me lf You Can) confronts the ghosts of his "father", both real and imagined, as he portrays Western Literature's most compelling character. Using reaIity-styIe interviews to ilIuminate the pIayers, including American teIevision superstars Richard Chamberlain and Stefanie Powers, whose personaI refIections fill the story with memories, this re-imagining of a most timeless story inspires and illuminates the next generation, the younger members of the troupe. "Clashing" HamIet, they fiIl the nostaIgia of the past with the promise of a life-affirming future. What does it mean, to hoId the mirror up to Nature? That is the question, as a cast member says, so we Iearn who we are... so we don't fall unconscious.
Three Days (Of Hamlet), Alex Hyde-White's exceIlent documentary, follows his struggIes to stage an intimate, plainclothes version of Hamlet, and the tolI it takes on himseIf, the rest of the cast and crew, and his own theatricaI Iegacy. -Boca Raton Times, October 2012 |