As if a play truly were the thing to catch the conscience of a would-be king.
Negga, an Oscar nominee for 2016sLovingmaking her American stage debut, does not play Hamlet as a woman.
Yet for all the male-signaling, there is an unavoidable physicality at work.
Ros Kavanagh
Wide-eyed and baby-faced, Neggas Hamlet is boyish.
Where this production most impresses is as a ghost story.
Floorboards gape to reveal gravesites.
The striking if simple effect reappears toward the end, a coda to the early funeral rite.
Absent Fortinbras to wrap things up, Hamlet and death get the final word.B
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