Hamlet

Starring: Murray, Brian

Product Description

With a daring and depth few of his American contemporaries seem prepared to match, Kevin Kline stars in and directs Hamlet for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Now with the felicitous addition of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Image/Sphe
• Director: Kline, Kevin
• Starring: Murray, Brian
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Color; DVD; Full Screen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

From the Broadway theater archive

PBS Great Performances Season 19, Episode 3 Original Air Date: November 2, 1990 William Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed and starring Kevin Kline. We have seen this play many times, sometimes abridged, and many adaptations by various artists and groups, such as Sir Laurence Oliver, Richard Burton, Dame Judith Anderson, Nicol Williamson, Richard Chamberlain, Derek Jacobi, Campbell Scott, Mel Gibson, and even (icky pooh) Ethan Hawke. Each production brings a unique plus that makes it hard to say which is best. And threatened to be played by Shelley Long in "Outrageous Fortune." That said, Kevin Kline is top-notch. One attribute is that this version, seemingly uncut, is spoken clearly. Maybe because it is a stage version filmed close enough that they did not have to shout. When Kevin builds up in the close-up, you forget all the trivial things like Hamlet's age. And you actually feel that you are there. Prince Hamlet loses his father, the king. It is unnerving to him that his mother should marry his uncle so soon that the funeral baked meat set the wedding table. Then comes the shocker. His father's ghost suggested that the uncle and wife did him in while asleep. How will Hamlet handle this news, and what consequences will it have on the people around him?