Gertrude: The Cry

Gertrude: The Cry

Atlantic Theatre - Stage 2
330 West 16th Street New York

Howard Barker's response to Hamlet. This entirely new story exposes the sexual nature of the crime at the heart of Shakespeare's play. Poetic language, ideas and dark humor build a compelling and erotic study of the sexuality and secrecy that seethe below the surface of Hamlet. Gertrude swells with a passion that counters all morality. The play explores a favorite Barker theme - the lust for individuation - for freedom from the oppression of licensed behavior. In this new world of Elsinore, Howard Barker defends Hamlet's reviled mother and her adulterous affair with Claudius, depicting them as lovers driven beyond reason.

Thru - Aug 5, 2014