Hamlet
Location: Robert Cotton Park, Stratford
Written by: William Shakespeare
Dates: August 29-30, September 5-7, 2015
Director: Terry Pratt
Stage Manager, Props Mistress:
Sharon MacDonald
Producer, Photographer, Props Maker:
Bunty Albert
Costume Designer and Builder: Pam Jewell
Fencing Choreographer, Coach: Philip Stewart
Ticketing, Front of House: David Neatby
Publicity: Ron Ryder
Music Arrangements: Carl Mathis
Assistant Stage Manager: Alex Cairns
Graphic Design: Christina Gaudet
Crew: Ann Greyborn, Cyril Armstrong, Gerry Gray, Kevin Peterson, Lily Hickox
Costume & Props: Hélene LaPalme, Anne Jameison, Karen Beauregard, Vanessa Brown, Alison Gordon, Brenda Porter, Emilie Maquignaz, Clancey Beagan, Mariève MacGregor, Melissa Piccioni
Cast
Horatio: Ashley Clark
Gertrude: Catherine MacDonald
Polonius/Priest: Gordon Cobb
Laertes/Rosencrantz/Player 1/Gravedigger 2:
Keir Malone
Ophelia: Lindsay Gillis
Hamlet: T. Noah J. Nazim
Claudius/Ghost: Richard Haines
Osric/Guildenstern/Player 2/Gravedigger 1: Sara McCarthy
Another of ACT’s Shakespeare in the Park series, this production of the world’s most famous play was done with the excellent cooperation of the Town of Stratford and its staff. The director, Terry Pratt, noted that there were three different versions of the play during Shakespeare’s time, that almost every director makes choices and cuts, and that he had “cut more ruthlessly than most for the sake of standing audience members”. Pratt also doubled parts in order to have the pleasure of working with just eight actors. The audience moved around the park for the various scenes and were transported to Elsinore by Shakespeare’s words and masterful Elizabethan-style costumes. Parking, golf carts for those with mobility challenges, Front of House, and skillful props manoevring were all handled by a busy crew of volunteers.
