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"When the wind is easterly, I know a drama queen from a ham."
Hamlet: Kenneth Brannagh's four-hour extravaganza on Channel 4 last night.
Now is the winter of too much content. A trifle long or to be edited? Aye, that was the question Brannagh ignored. Whether it was nobler in his producer's eye to suffer the audience leaving in droves or, by sticking rigorously to the original script, bear tedium and oppose them.
Alas poor Lemmon, I knew him well. Many a time and oft I watched his merry jest, he merely content to play the fool, and yet, in this his finest hour as he strutted his last upon the Danish stage, he appeared not to understand the very meaning of his words and failed to inflect with appropriate timing.
Fie! Lord Heston, with thine gun-law, thou was the corniest of them all. Your extravagant posturing and organ-pipe teeth had all the substance but not the wit to carry this terminable tale.
Come! Let us speak of this no more. Let us away to compare Australian soaps against The Bill and hope this petty play, this septic ham-fest, its mere actors forgetful of their worth transformed instead into archetypes of excess, shall not resurface from the twilight hours for many another year yet.