Hamlet " review
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIt is a curious production of Hamlet that calls for the use of a swanee whistle, but then Northern Broadsides is a curious kind of company. Though its commitment to popular, unpretentious Shakespeare is unassailable, you wonder about the compulsion to introduce a song-and-dance routine at every opportunity.The gravedigger's song is generally a brief unaccompanied air; in Conrad Nelson's p…