The Secret Love Life of Ophelia
Studio 16
Tuesday, September 15 2009 8:00pm
Steven Berkoff attempts to fill in the backstory of Ophelia and Hamlet's doomed love and succeeds brilliantly. Written in the form of letters sent between the two lovers, the story unfolds from the first tender blush of affection, to wonderfully lustful and passionate imagery, and finally to heart wrenching declarations of eternal love in death. Berkoff really captures the language and emotion in his script which weaves itself into the events of Shakespeare's play.
Alicia Novak is an amazing Ophelia transforming from shy girl to lover to sacrificial being. Darren Boquist captures Hamlet's tragic descent but was marred by the occasional word stumble.
I think Shakespeare would approve.
4/5
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Vancouver International Fringe Festival 2009
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival. Despite a rocky economy and an arts unfriendly provincial government, the show must go on. With perseverance and the generosity of patrons, sponsors, and arts loving individuals there will be more and greater Fringe in the future. Here's to another 12 days of hilarity, passion, anxiety, song, sexuality, and surprise.
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