Disastrous. It starts with very odd staging, with Polonius basically standing around in the dark and Ophelia coming across him in her pink d...

Not surprisingly, Zeffirelli chooses to show the scene rather than hear talk about it. Though the director often butchers the original text,...

Sadly, the BBC television production's version of this story shows off both the actress and the format's flaws. While from the dista...

Olivier removes Polonius from this scene entirely, and turns Ophelia's words into a soliloquy and flashback. Unlike most other directors...

Reynaldo's exit is Ophelia's entrance, out of breath and teary. Kate Winslet gives an intensely emotional performance that prefigure...

On the heels of Reynaldo's departure comes Ophelia in the second half of Scene 1 (if, indeed, Reynaldo makes an appearance at all in any...

The 2009 Hamlet features an outwardly patient Reynaldo in the service of an aging and dottering Polonius. He smiles at jokes he doesn't ...

Or I should say Reynalda. Fodor's more experimental, horror-driven version has already changed Polonius and Horatio's genders, and n...

This version of the scene makes me realize how much it hinges on Reynaldo's performance. In the Branagh adaptation, Reynaldo is a sinist...

In Branagh's Hamlet, the small roles are played by major stars, and in this case, Polonius' spy Reynaldo is played by Gérard Depardi...

After more than a year of Hyperioneering, we finally slice into Act II. I never claimed this was going to be a short ride, did I? Act II...

Left without comment Because really, what can you say to this?

At around this point in the Hallyday's double album, the timeline gets a little tenuous. Songs are, by their nature, not as linearly nar...

The original That is all. It's actually surprising that the return of the Ghost isn't included given this adaptations fascination wi...

The camera work in this sequence is handheld, giddy, drunk and mad. The floor seems to tip like the deck of a ship. Hamlet comes towards his...

In this version, Hamlet encounters the Ghost is a sort of waking dream. Horatio (the only one on guard duty with him) startles him out of it...

Hamlet 2000 moves lines around frequently, and in this case, prefaces this section with its actual end lines. The rhyming couplet is spoken ...

Kline's version is staged like a play, but that sometimes puts its staging closer to the theatre. At the end of the previous sequence, i...

Zeffirelli continues to frustrate with important cuts to the lines, which makes it at times difficult to glean some new understanding of the...

Jacobi's Hamlet puts that "antic disposition" on very early in the play, and one could easily say that this is a mad Hamlet, n...