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Hamlet " review by Lyn Gardner

Barbican, LondonLess a tragedy and more a tortured comedy played out in the squelching mud and dirt of Elsinore, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubuhne production shines the same forensic light on Shakespeare as he previously brought to bear on Kane and Ibsen. The result is brash and noisy, sometimes infuriating, frequently illuminating, occasionally heart-stopping and never, not even for the tiniest moment, dull. You can't …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AM on August 20, 2015

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