What the bard's Polonius took 24 lines to say, this Polonius manages in fewer than 20 seconds. Brevity is the soul of wit, and sumptuousness the soul of costume drama, which the movie "Ophelia ...

The original musical "Ophelia," onstage at Fringe ArtSpace, is full of interesting ideas and moments, but leaves too much unclear. Skip to content. ... Polonius and Laertes (here, ...

Polonius (Robert Esposito) dozes off. Charley McAffee, a faculty member at Co-Op who has written a dozen plays, said he penned Capillary Waves after acting in the tragedy a decade ago. He played ...

Ophelia appears to be floating dead and ... aims to rehabilitate its heroine along 21st-century lines of agency and empowerment — to give Laertes’s sister and Polonius’s daughter a ...

Ophelia appears in just five scenes of “Hamlet.” She speaks barely 150 lines in William Shakespeare’s longest play. But the tragic character whose story ends in “muddy death” has a life ...

In playing Polonius, Laertes, and Ophelia over successive nights, Cathleen Riddley sketches a beautiful portrait of a most unfortunate family, all victims of Hamlet’s rage. Cast her to type and she ...

Ophelia and Hamlet’s rewritten romance cribs from “Romeo and Juliet.” One of the biggest plot expansions is a secret marriage, which adds context to why the stakes of their affair were so high.