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https://scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2072355/i-hate-hamlet-about-slings-and-arrows-playing-dane-comes
Culture

I Hate Hamlet, about the slings and arrows of playing the Dane, comes to Hong Kong

The ghost of famous stage actor John Barrymore, who first played Hamlet in 1922, returns to help a young actor who has reluctantly taken on the role

Neville Sarony (left) and Hamish Campbell star in a Hong Kong Players production of I Hate Hamlet. Photo: Ines Laimins

Every serious actor supposedly aspires to play Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. However in I Hate Hamlet, a 1991 play by Paul Rudnick being presented next month at the Fringe Underground by the Hong Kong Players, a TV star is offered the role and quite genuinely doesn’t want to take it.

Playwright Paul Rudnick got the idea for the play when he moved into an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York, and learned that a previous occupant had been the actor John Barrymore.