Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Winnipeg free press january entertainment editor Morley 6977307 Mac says request came too late deaf activist loses bid for interpreter by Brad Oswald entertainment reporter a wish to be at Hamlet is apparently not to be for a local deaf activist who claims Manitoba theatre Centre has refused to accommodate her request for Sig language interpretation of the Theresa Anne who describes herself As a longtime fan of actor Keanu says Shes unsatisfied with the reasons Mac has offered for not providing the there Are a number of people in the deaf Community who would like to attend this Swedick said in an interview conducted with the Aid of a Sig language we have a right to be and we have a right to this Swedick said she has met Reeves twice since his arrival in Winnipeg at the where she handed him a letter outlining her and again last week outside the Mac Mac marketing director Joan Stephens confirmed that Swedick contacted the theatres office Early last but said the plays reproduction planning had simply advanced too far to allow for inclusion of Sig language translation for which opens its the sort of thing that requires some and we haunt planned for she its not a matter of just lets do and putting someone up if somebody had said to us in when we announced that Reeves was that they would like us to have signed we could have taken a look at but we didst get any requests until Stephens said Mac has provided Sig language interpretation in the for its 1992 Mai stage production of the Miracle but has not received any requests for the service Short notice my feeling is that if were going to do it for one we really should do it for All of she its not in sure theres people out there who would want to see six degrees of separation or poor super so i dont want to dismiss her but we simply cant do it for Hamlet on such Short Swedick said she Hast sought tickets for any other Mac but added that Lack of previous interest prevent her from seeing her Hollywood hero within the hearing not All hearing people go to not All deaf people have an interest in going to she but i dont think that takes away the right to see this the executive director of the Independent interpreter referral service challenged macs claim that Swedick request came too if Mac had called us at the beginning of i dont think we would have had a Bonnie Ubienski Ubienski said the Agency handles a variety of assignments that allow for limited preparation it would have been a but no More so than going in and doing a really serious trial or a television she Edo a lot of intense and whether its a life threatening a murder trial As in this dealing with shakespearean i believe we can handle the Stephens said providing an interpreter is Only part of the and that advanced technical planning of the plays stage and lighting also made it impossible to accommodate an onstage Swedick said macs Assurance that it will examine the possibility of providing Sig language translation at future productions is of Little Comfort if she cant see its Gratifying to know that they will consider but the Issue is still this particular right she i doubt that Reeves will be coming Back to do a repeat performance in this were missing out on a great Opportunity Jeff free press Swedick failed in her attempts to have Mac provide Sig language interpretation for Hamlet survives outrageous slings and arrows by Kevin Prokosh theatre reporter tube or nog tube heat data you wont hear Keanu Reeves utter those not famous words when he stars As the Prince of Denmark in Manitoba theatre centres production of opening this barely recognizable presentation of Shakespeare most celebrated line comes from one of the More harebrained Avant Garde interpretations of the most performed play in history is also the most some say play Ever the distinguished English director Peter Brook likens Hamlet to Tea leaves in a cup in which every observer views the patterns Over almost four stage directors armed with big ideas or Radical concepts have presented nude hamlets As Well As the Prince of Denmark As a a Dwarf and As the title role has been played by a Fivey Earold boy As Well As a 72yearold woman and an 80yearold this honorable history of reinterpretation is appropriate Given that Hamlet is a reworking of an earlier probably by it has always attracted and fascinated people looking to offer a deeper penetration of the no one has or Likely Ever will create the definitive Hamlet that can stand the test of when the mystery of Hamlet has been the mystery of human life will have been wrote the English critic Harold directors of the bards plays have nonetheless assumed the responsibility for the task of assimilating the objects of the past such As Hamlet into the interests of the its known As Jol lying up Shakespeare in the Hopes of popularizing his Mac patrons should not expect to see any Radical textural reworking such As the example nor a team Hamlet approach where six people line up on stage and each in one syllable of the princes to or not to Lewis the director of the Mac has set his Hamlet in the elizabethan period in what amounts to a Standard Hamlet on the surface you will recognize All the elements of a traditional elizabethan says where its not traditional is that it deals with what is going on in the unconscious mind of All of us and How we attend to our relations with our parents and what it is to be a it explores All those kind of oedipal that seems almost innovative Given some of the time warped and just Plain twisted a recent Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan production of Hamlet featured the Prince As a longhaired Rock Star decked out in leather pants and a shirt that in going fucking a 1988 version called Hamlet machine by East German Heiner Muller included four Rock music and there once was a goofy Little red Riding Hood Hamlet As Well As a Poprock Hamlet who pranced about new York City ghettos and sat affectionately on the ghosts also in legendary film director Ingmar Bergman came to North America with his acclaimed swedish language Hamlet that ended with the Entrance of Forti bras dressed As a Central american military Leader at the head of a line of soldiers with he orders his men to throw All the stage corpses into a pit and take Horatio away and shoot the play concludes with deafening machine gun such reworkings have broken the hearts of the perpetrators glibly defend saying they dont have the playwrights Telephone movie director Orson Welles once we All betray directors Are often facing allo nothing Odds when taking profound liberties with Baumander has if you get him right he rewards if you get him wrong he punishes says the Toronto and i Ive done them wednesday is wag tuesday Art for lunch at noon us Tor a look at the work of Winnipeg born Dalla husband whose work was widely admired by her contemporaries in Paris in the 1920s and free Art after 5 wine and hours d oeuvres a i 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