re: #193 Hecuba’s daughter

I’ve always preferred modern adaptations of Shakespeare as long as the dialogue is strictly Shakespeare, but the setting, the attire, and the verbal intonations and actions are more contemporary. One of my favorite Hamlets (which I’ve seen at least 25 times — both live and on the screen) was performed at a small local theater, where Polonius was taping all his conversations with every character, and seemed more malevolent rather than a fool.

The one modern interpretation of a Shakespeare play — 12th Night — that I hated was at Goodman theater where there was a gender reversal: all female characters were played by men and all male characters were played by women. We left at intermission, though have to admit that the last scene before our departure was hysterical.