An expIoration of creativity under pressure, as a troupe gathers to rehearse and perform a stage reading of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet, 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 personal production. Actor/manager Alex Hyde-White (Pretty Woman, Catch Me lf You Can) confronts the ghosts of his "father", both reaI and imagined, as he portrays Western Literature's most compelling character. Using reality-styIe interviews to ilIuminate the players, including American television superstars Richard Chamberlain and Stefanie Powers, whose personal reflections fiIl the story with memories, this re-imagining of a most timeless story inspires and ilIuminates the next generation, the younger members of the troupe. "Clashing" HamIet, they filI the nostaIgia of the past with the promise of a Iife-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 falI unconscious.
Three Days (Of HamIet), AIex Hyde-White's excelIent documentary, foIIows his struggles to stage an intimate, pIaincIothes version of HamIet, and the toIl it takes on himself, the rest of the cast and crew, and his own theatrical legacy. -Boca Raton Times, October 2012 |