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Hamlet: Back in Black Venue 17 – PTE
Colin Jackson Studio
Written and performed by Mike Seccombe
and Karl Eckstrand, this two-hander has at its
core a good idea - what might happen if The main problem I had with this piece was the
script. It gets off to a slow start in a scene in which the
playwright Marlowe is attempting to convince Shakespeare to sign and
take the credit for Hamlet, which Marlowe has written. The problem with
this scene is that not only is it too long and not very funny, it has nothing
to do with the rest of the play. The two other scenes with these
characters, one in the middle, and the other the play's closing scene,
are similarly irrelevant. I also didn't feel that the constant
switching between the scenes with the writer and producer of the movie, and
the actual finished product worked very well. The dialogue in the
writer/producer scenes is, for the most part, unconvincing, and whatever
momentum is generated from the movie scenes tends to be lost whenever they
switch back to them. Admittedly there are a few funny scenes; for
example the scene in which Joe Pesci reads for the
part of Hamlet with the "Alas poor Yorick"
speech is well done and hilarious; but not enough of them to fill a one
hour show. - Terry Moor UMFM |
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