Yes, its Hamlet but the plays not really the thing in Theresa Rebecks bright, lushly executed showpiece.
Its the first half of her slashed equation: Sarah Bernhardt.
And when Janet McTeer strides in, she feels completely right.
Credit: Joan Marcus
Though it may take a while for the idea to sink in: Whos her Hamlet?
a sniffy critic asks, perplexed.
Shes her Hamlet, her lover Edmond Rostand (Jason Butler Harner) explains patiently.
What wide 19th-century audience, even one that adores her, will readily accept this kind of gender transgression?
The glue in it all is McTeer.
