Kenny Leon’s production gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing.
. That’s fine. There’s plenty to explore in the messy, melancholy classic, but if you’re going to keep staging the play, you’d better bring something new. That’s where Kenny Leon and the Public Theater, which is Danish double-dipping after producing, falters in its Shakespeare in the Park offering this summer. Although led by an able Ato Blankson-Wood, this is aLeon bringsto the present-day American South.
The point, perhaps, is that the pandemic and protests over police violence in 2020 made it all the more obvious that something is rotten in America. Butis a big, ungainly play on its own terms, and when Leon tries to wrap it around all these contemporary signifiers, it resists bending toward his interpretation.
The production’s endeavors to find something outside the text to hang a message on also muddle the inward-directed tendency of the characters, especially Hamlet’s. We can’t hear him think well because the direction is speaking over him, telling us to focus on something else. Leon deploys projections and a booming audio effect for Hamlet’s encounters with his father’s ghost with Blankson-Wood mouthing along to the messages as if possessed.
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