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Ann-Marie MacDonald - Hamlet-911, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Hamlet-911

Av Ann-Marie MacDonald

236 kr

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Incisive and comical, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911 interrogates white male privilege in the theatre while also grappling with urgent themes of adolescent suicide and personal crisis.The plot follows actor Guinness Menzies, a television star, who lands his dream role as Hamlet at the Stratford Festival – largely to impress his father, Rex, a renowned Shakespearean actor at the festival. Rex plays the Ghost, while Guinness’s wife, Sue, is cast as Gertrude, a role for which his real mother is deemed too old. Before a high school matinee a student named Jeremy messages Guinness for help with a class project, but Guinness ignores him. Unbeknownst to the actor, an online predator is grooming Jeremy, pushing him toward suicide. After a fight with Sue, Guinness crashes his bike and wakes up in a surreal Underworld, part nightmare, part comedy, where time is out of joint, his understudy may replace him, and he’s forced to relive his own family drama onstage. Guided by an usher-jester named Yorick, Guinness must complete a mysterious quest before he can return – and before it’s too late for Jeremy.This new edition of the playscript provides essential context for reading and staging the work. It features a substantial critical introduction by Neta Gordon, exploring the history and national significance of the Stratford Festival and how MacDonald’s drama draws on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It also includes an engaging interview with MacDonald and director Alisa Palmer, tracing the play’s multi-year development and eventual production at Stratford.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-30
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 150
  • Förlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • ISBN: 9780228029441
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Ann-Marie MacDonald (Author) Ann-Marie MacDonald is an author, playwright, and actor whose published works include Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and Fall on Your Knees.Neta Gordon (Introduction by) Neta Gordon is professor in the department of English Language and Literature at Brock University.

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“If Hamlet-911 had been penned by Shakespeare, it surely would have been classified as one of his ‘problem plays’ because of the equally active comedic and tragic forces at play. Under the surface of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s vibrant, witty characters is a deep reckoning with mortality, legacy, and a yearning to play a different role from the one you were born to play.” - Erin Shields, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning[JA1.1] author of If We Were Birds “Hamlet-911 is a beautiful meditation on Shakespeare’s great play about doomed youth and its resonance in our world today. It encompasses the theatrical as well as online worlds, accomplished actors as well as students attending theatre for the first time. At its Stratford Festival premiere the powerful story moved hearts and provoked important questions about how we might better support our young.” - Antoni Cimolino, Stratford Festival “Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911 is a joyful, irreverent, and deeply intelligent reimagining. A must-read and a must-watch, it invites us to encounter a familiar play with fresh eyes and open hearts. A much-anticipated addition to Canadian theatre, Hamlet-911 reminds us that plays are civic spaces where we rehearse our own courageous becoming. I will be assigning it alongside Hamlet for years to come.” - Jessica Riddell, author of Hope Circuits

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