One of the challenges for the director of Paul Rudnick’s 1991 comedy “I Hate Hamlet” is figuring out whether to balance and unify the cast’s performances, or just let the actors take the characters where they want to go.
Audience members under 60 may not be familiar with John Barrymore, the Shakespearean stage and silver screen film actor who became globally famous playing Hamlet in the 1920s but drank himself to death by 1942. In “I Hate Hamlet,” Barrymore’s ghost haunts a castle-like apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village, which washed-up TV actor Andrew Rally has leased for the summer to play Hamlet in a 1989 Shakespeare in the Park production.
Although Guzman’s Andrew is more grounded and authentic than DeCarlo’s wacky, ethereal Barrymore, the two actors match each other well in energy, wordplay and swordplay. The other four characters feel more like broad caricatures.
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