Photo by Alex McMahanHamlet (Heath Locke) reminisces about his friend Yorrick in the graveyard with the gravedigger (Andrew Miller) and Horatio (Brock Ward) in the CTC Youth Theatre production of “Hamlet.”
IF YOU GO* What: “Hamlet.”* When: 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday and Feb. 18-19; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Feb. 19-20.* Where: James K. Steakley/Meyer Winer Youth Theatre, Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St.* Admission: $8-$10.* Phone: 267-8534.* Website: www.TheatreCentre.com
Don’t let the leather jackets and grungy, garage-like setting of the Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s Youth Theatre fool you; it’s still “Hamlet.”
The Shakespearean tragedy, what director Chuck Tuttle calls “a post-modern remix in [the playwright’s] original language,” will open tonight and run for two weekends in the Mildred M. Montague Circle Theatre.
“There’s no such thing as traditional Shakespeare,” the director said. “People have an idea of what it should be,” but it’s been changing through the years.
The youth version will be half the original but will be the “full story with a few exceptions,” Tuttle said. “It will give a sense of the characters and what the dilemmas are.”