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Hamlet at Riverside studio review: Eddie Izzard's Shakespeare is an act of colossal vanity and hubris

Source: Amanda Searle

I’ve seen a musical about pornographic wallpaper, and a play that a lone producer decided to perform when his cast failed to turn up. Those were, arguably, worse ideas than this solo tragedy from Eddie Izzard.

Still, this one-person Hamlet is an act of colossal vanity and hubris, hung on the skimpiest last year, which at least had a framing first-person narrative.

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