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Celebrating the Bard

HAMLET For the Houston Shakespeare Festival, director Steve Pickering sets the world’s most famous play in Edwardian Denmark, using WWI as background. It fits the mood, as warlike Fortinbras prowls through Europe, eyeing Hamlet’s troubled royal house. It also allows costumer Clair Hummel to overlay a lively period look —…

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