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| | washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Theater & Dance |
 | | ale, indeed, as death, the white-faced, white-haired, fl-suited ghost of Hamlet's father (Edward Petherbridge) materializes suddenly at the fancy wedding party of Hamlet's mother and uncle, frightening his son who has just been mocking Horatio's account of a supernatural visitation nearly into a fit. |
 | | Educated, ironic and high-strung, Alex Jennings's Hamlet is unprepared to find himself thrust into a bloody, paranoid ghost-story-cum-melodrama. |
 | | Petherbridge's ghost is hushed and mournful, almost diffident, as if the dead father senses that what he is going to ask of his son is far, far too much. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/theater/reviews/hamlet0612.htm (550 words) |
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