June 2, 2018

As You Like It last night was Cadillac theater, streamlined, swift, elegant in every part. Any college boy can play Orlando, so it was probably not the right role for Adam. He played it brilliantly, of course, but as though every moment he was gong to break out of it and become Hamlet. He needs something bigger, meatier, which I would supply if the world allowed. My new theory is that Orlando IS Hamlet if Hamlet had not been a prince and had been allowed to return to Wittenburg with his friends. Or, Hamlet is Orlando denied Arden. Lonely drink at the Brazilian bar afterward.