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Hamlet

adapted by Charles Marowitz
article by Appolinaire Sheer on sfgate.com

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PERFORMANCE: Absurd Indeed

At the heart of its consistently intriguing programming is the
Exit Theater's Absurdist Season, stretching the notion of
"Absurdism" to appropriately absurd proportions. Running
January through July, with an offering of eight plays (two at
any one time in the Exit's black box set of stages), Season
1999 encompasses everything from classic Ionesco and
Beckett, inventively re-visioned, to lesser known works by
contemporary "beat" poet Diane di Prima and Djuna Barnes,
a high priestess of modernism.

The festival opens with two irreverent treatments of literary
masterpieces: "Subject to Fits," a song and dance version of
Dostoyevsky's "Idiot," and famed
Shakespeare-deconstructor Charles Marowitz's 80-minute
"Hamlet" collage. The cast for the openers include such Bay
Area lights as director John Sowle, who last year took a
Beckett radio play in unforeseen directions; Val
Hendrickson, of "Suicide in B Flat" fame; the Exit's artistic
director Christine Auguello; and the not-yet-famous Dan
Carbone, creator and weird star of the wildly improbable
one-man show, "Up From the Ground." --Appolinaire
Scherr

Through February 27:Absurdist Season. Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy St.,
SF. Tickets $14 ($10 for students, seniors and Theater Bay Area
members.) January 29-Feb. 27: "Subject to Fits" and "Hamlet." Fri.,Sat.,
and Mon., Feb. 8 and 22 only, at 8 p.m. (415) 673-3847.

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