{"product_id":"hamlet-in-rehearsal-donald-freed-9780881454000","title":"Hamlet (In Rehearsal)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonald Freed's stage version of HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) unearths a buried play within the play within the play in which a guilt-imprisoned, state-imprisoned, cosmically-imprisoned Hamlet lunges for and ultimately grasps the quietus of freedom. It is an explosively original, marvelously creative feat of Nabokovian intellectual acrobatics. Wonderful!\u003cbr\u003e Leon Katz, Leon Katz' Edition of the Notebooks of Gertrude Stein, Emeritus Professor, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Shakespeare had reawakened in the oppressed theater of the 21st century, read Beckett, watched C N N and had a stiff drink, this is the play he would have written.\u003cbr\u003e Adam Leipzig, producer \u0026amp; dramaturg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Freed has brought us a completely new concept of Hamlet and a brilliant one. Setting up a rehearsal play to take its place with Buckingham and Michael Frayn, he engineers a high level debate\/conflict, funny and active enough to hold any audience tight. The central impression is of a director beset like Hamlet, and a Hamlet with a great deal of the director. They share a predicament, fight it out and the audience wins.\u003cbr\u003e Edward Pearce, Machiavelli's Children, The Great Man, The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo actor with a pulse could read this play without wanting to get up and do it. Freed takes us into dark corridors between the lines of Shakespeare's play, creating a brilliant met-drama full of theatrical joy, startling epiphany and crackling-good language. Unique as can be.\u003cbr\u003e Ron Marasco, PhD, author of Notes to an Actor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Freed's HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) is a revelation that rings so true, you will wonder why you never thought of it. Freed has trumped his own genius. Amazing!\u003cbr\u003e Lorinne Vozoff, Artistic Director, Theatre Group Studio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Freed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881454001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881454000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d","brand":"Donald Freed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438035120383,"sku":"9780881454000","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8b21dcc-b0e0-45ae-9d9a-dd79466ee54f.jpg?v=1777168359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hamlet-in-rehearsal-donald-freed-9780881454000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}