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With some of these tweets and various messages from concern for the more hamlet. we can see just a sense of it. as were waiting for more information on his condition. want to bring a cnn contributor, bob costas, right. now on the phone. bob, none of us have ever seen anything like this. as many football games as we all. what a talking to a local report there. so the minute happened you could tell that this was different. that something was truly wrong. your reaction tonight. >> yes, you could. e...

Who looks like you up on that screen... which historically you havent. yeah. well, i mean, you know, the first black actor to appear in stratford was in 1958. and we have... i think we have actually pioneered diversity. er... and, you know, ithink when paapa essiedu played hamlet in 2016, that was, that was, you know, out of time. that was way beyond what we ought to have done. it ought to have happened earlier. but i think, you know, we are... we are... so arthur hughes, who is playing richard ...

Or you see our live froms in the cinema maybe, and you dont see somebody who looks like you up on that screen... which historically you havent. yeah. well, i mean, you know, the first black actor to appear in stratford was in 1958. and we have... i think we have actually pioneered diversity. er... and, you know, ithink when paapa essiedu played hamlet in 2016, that was, that was, you know, out of time. that was way beyond what we ought to have done. it ought to have happened earlier. but i think...

You know, youre a hero among the kids now, because they rediscovered all of mark s brothers, in fact, duck soup is playing in new york, with hamlet. >> i swear. >> in the late 60s there was a revival of the marx brothers around college aged audiences. >> the counterculture generation caught on to the anarchy of the marx brothers. it was perfect. it was also lovely that groucho lived to see it. >> you had a movie, like duck soup, which shows how preposterous the whole idea of war is, well, if you...

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Alvaro Saar Rios’ ‘Piggsville’ cleverly fuses shades of Shakespeare with an old Milwaukee brewery setting to deliver a distinctly American perspective on Hamlet.

Us going up there. as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. i found a state cop and said, "what the hell was going on?" and he says, "i dont know. there are thousands of people here and theyre all going to some farm." and it was, of course, woodstock. >> i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they werent alone. a lot of people who in their hometown or in their family felt isolated, realized they werent. >> the townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified...

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Thomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet,” presented as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, unleashes more madness than what Shakespeare has already offered.