Hamlet
iPhoto caption: Stratford's Tom Patterson Theatre. Photo by Ann Baggley.
2027 highlights include a new Canadian Jacob Two-Two musical and two of the Bard’s thornier plays: The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew.
iPhoto caption: Janelle Hanna in Heratio. Photo by Raph Nogal.
In GFT’s Heratio, Genevieve Adam gives overdue flowers to Hamlet’s best friend
“Horatio’s the only one who comes out of Hamlet alive,” says Adam. “In a lot of versions of [the play], Horatio is sort of beige and milquetoast. I’ve always thought that was a missed opportunity.”
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: In Canadian Stage’s Fat Ham, revenge is a dish best served smoked
Fat Ham is self-aware of its nature as an adaptation, twisting the audience’s familiarity with both Hamlet and Blackness to disrupt their assumptions of who these characters are as people.
iPhoto caption: Photo of Peter Fernandes by Lorne Bridgman; photos of Qasim Khan and the Berkeley Street Theatre by Dahlia Katz.
Khan starred in Canadian Stage’s recent High Park Hamlet. Now, Fernandes is leading Fat Ham, a contemporary adaptation set at a cookout.