Hamlet begins in darkness with the appearance of a dead man's ghost and ends with the floor knee-deep in corpses, and in between these two moments in time the title character muses constantly upon the nature of death. Right out of the gate, the Repertory Theatre St. Louis' first-ever production of the play is steeped in sepulchral colors, sights and sounds, from Michael Gaino's set of skeletal scaffolds and castle walls frozen mid-collapse to the gloomy black uniforms of Denmark's soldiers.…
Hamlet begins in darkness with the appearance of a dead man's ghost and ends with the floor knee-deep in corpses, and in between these two moments in time the title character muses constantly upon the nature of death. Right out of the gate, the Repertory Theatre St. Louis' first-ever production of the play is steeped in sepulchral colors, sights and sounds, from Michael Gaino's set of skeletal scaffolds and castle walls frozen mid-collapse to the gloomy black uniforms of Denmark's soldiers.…