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Hamlet " Edinburgh festival 2013 review by Andrew Dickson

Royal Lyceum theatreIt begins undramatically: an actor ambles on stage and announces that we're going to watch footage of Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway version of Hamlet. But things begin to go awry. The huge video screen behind him judders and trembles, black-and-white figures slither hazily in and out of focus. Burton's voice leaps from nowhere, and seems to fill the theatre. This isn't so much a screening, we gat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AM on August 12, 2013

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