I am late with everything right now, so here are the sketches I finally got scanned in from Hamlet a few weeks ago. It was utterly remarkable. Eliza Pagelle played Hamlet, and she was not only the finest Hamlet I've seen, but she also went to Juillard and played sections of Chopin at the grand piano on the stage throughout, which perfectly fitted Hamlet's self examination. Stephanie Shine directed with such warmth and humanity, bringing Ophelia in silently early on to establish the relationship before we see it distentegrate. The Ophelia/Laertes/Polonius family was deeper than I've ever seen, as was the Hamlet and Horatio bond. The early 20th Century costumes by Austin Blake Conlee were remarkable. I loved Nic Picou paired as Claudius and the Ghost, back and forth between his self important military outfit and a ghostly gas-masked Great War apparition, and his wonderful queen could have stepped out of a Fred and Ginger movie. Truly the whole cast was marvelous. I can't say enough about what this wonderful company is doing in Memphis.