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Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". L-R: Beth Buchanan as Ophelia, Richard Pyros as Hamlet. Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark

By Oscar Redding

26 February 2008 – 08 March 2008 Tower Theatre

Film adapted after William Shakespeare

Malthouse Theatre, Poor Theatre,

New Adaptation Film Collaboration

Screenings of a locally-produced film version of Shakespeare's tragedy.

Like Denmark's Dogme film movement, this Hamlet abandons convention to focus on the bleeding essence of its source material — a young man driven to the brink of insanity by outrageous fortune. Here, his only friend, Horatio becomes a hand-puppet, his only hope, a revenge as absurd as it is inevitable.

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". L-R: Craig Robinson as Rosencrantz, Richard Pyros as Hamlet, Isaac Drandich as Guildenstern. Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". Beth Buchanan as Ophelia. Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". L-R: Craig Robinson as Rosencrantz, Richard Pyros as Hamlet, Isaac Drandich as Guildenstern. Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

Still from the film "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". Beth Buchanan as Ophelia. Cinematographer: Ari Wegner