Hamlet
April
26 - May 20, 2007
Rubicon Theatre Company
Ventura, California
“The play’s
the thing.”
April 2, 2007…Ventura,
CA… For nine years Rubicon
Theatre Company has been presenting
innovative, first-rate professional theatrical productions for residents and
visitors of the central coast. The company has captured awards and accolades
for their diverse repertoire of classic and contemporary dramas,
comedies and musicals.
For 400 years, the
famous tragedy of the Prince of Denmark has fascinated theatergoers like no
other; it is a work of primal genius, unsurpassed in the history of
imaginative literature. On April 26th, the stars align and Rubicon
Theatre undertakes Shakespeare’s epic tragedy, HAMLET.
Joseph
Fuqua steps into the title role supported by James O’Neil as Claudius,
Stephanie Zimbalist as Gertrude, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as The Player King.
(The father-daughter pair make only their second stage appearance together
with this production; Rubicon’s Night of the Iguana being the first).
HAMLET plays Thursday, April 26th through Sunday, May 20th at Rubicon Theatre, 1006 East Main Street in
Ventura’s Downtown Historic Cultural District..
HAMLET reigns as
the crown jewel of English literature - the most-produced and most-quoted of
Shakespeare’s 37 masterpieces.
Its
thematic complexity embraces a myriad of emotions and ideas, including love, madness, betrayal, revenge, murder, mayhem
and the existentialist struggle defined in “to be or not to be.” It is, in
brief, the most famous English play ever written.
The title
character’s enigmatic persona has been analyzed by countless academics and
portraying the role has become a right of passage for actors. Rubicon’s first
company member Joseph Fuqua picks up the gauntlet of the “sweet Prince”
after performing in fifteen prior productions with Rubicon.
Fuqua
has been a professional actor for twenty years having graduated from the
M.F.A. program at Yale School of Drama. His professional credits include work
on Broadway, and at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dallas Theatre Center,
Manitoba Theatre Centre, South Coast Rep and elsewhere.
Joseph joins the
acting ranks of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton,
Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes and countless others as he suffuses the
brooding Prince of Denmark with life.
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