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A Post for Hamlet?

Manawatu Summer Shakespeare
Hamlet: Ode to Odin
This is Hamlet like you have never seen it before!
Fast and furious action. A foreign army is in the land. The Castle is surrounded. Revenge is in the air. This is a play about War and Peace.
The Victoria Esplanade will become the Castle, alive with the action of the people who live there - including local community groups – come along and see friends, neighbours, family perform - March 9,10,11 and 16,17,18, 2007.
Shakespeare based his play Hamlet on the ancient Scandinavian legend as told by Saxo in the 12th Century – at the end of the Viking Age – in the pre-Christian period of Norse Mythology. Odin is the father of the gods, Lord of War, Death and Knowledge. He was very hot on Military Intelligence, having two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who flew around the world every day bringing up-to-date reports. With one eye, he was a shape shifter, astride Sleipnir his 8 legged, winged horse, surrounded by his beautiful Valkyries – warrior women on winged horses who carried fallen warriors back to Valhalla to drink mead in Odin’s hall until Doomsday (Ragnarok) when they will all fight together in the final war of the world.
The image of: A Viking ship pushed out to sea, flames licking at its sail and mast as it carries its heroic cargo into the setting sun...the body of a chieftain, surrounded by gold and weapons, dignified in death even as the flames flit around his bier and the smoke obscures his outlines...
The Manawatu Summer Shakespeare will draw on this rich Norse mythology in presenting Hamlet: Ode to Odin.
Lilicherie in The Tribune

Big Ups, as they say, to all who were in the 1971 or was it 1972 production on the Bombay Hills. I copy to Leonie!
So many people were not in it!! Roy, Eric....
A Reunion for all who were not in Hamlet? Bert, Cheryl?
Coming back to the one in Palmy it looks like fun.
Who will play Hamlet?
What will be cut?