Bernhardt/ Hamlet – A WTF! Play Reading
1 Taranaki St, Wellington
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By Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Heather O’Carroll with Lara Macgregor as Sarah Bernhardt
In 1899 Sarah Bernhardt decides she will play Hamlet – not the first time she has sought gender equality.
Louis: Someone needs to talk her out of it. She’s a great actress, but Hamlet? It’s grotesque.
If Shakespeare meant for Hamlet to be a woman, he would have named the play “Hamlet Princess of Denmark”. That’s not what he wrote... men playing women, that’s all right. Women playing men. It doesn’t work... it’s a disgusting idea and you know it.
CAST:
Sarah Bernhardt – Lara Macgregor
Edmond – Simon Leary
Alphonse – Alex Greig
Lysette/ Rosamund – Neenah Dekkers-Reihana
Maurice / Francois / Worker – Paul Waggott
Louis / Raoul – Ralph McCubbin Howell
Constant – Nathaniel Lees
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