Rep’s latest production transposes “Hamlet” to a post-apocalyptic, “Mad Max” world
of howling desolation and horrific weaponry

LAURENCE OLIVIER, by consensus the greatest Shakespearean actor of the last century, described his 1941 film version of “Hamlet” as “the tragedy of a man who couldn’t make up his mind.”

By that standard, the Prince of Denmark played by Niccolo Manahan in Repertory Philippines’ current production of “Hamlet,” directed by Ana Abad Santos-Bitong, must seem like a radical departure. Gone for the most part are the ambiguities, the tortured indecisions of the character, even in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy.

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