Actor and Friend, RH Thompson came to me and said he wanted to play Hamlet. Would I direct him? Wow! Lucky me! His one stipulation was that during the “To be or not to be” monologue, he wanted to have a revolver in his hand not a dagger.

So we started to read the play together and I started to get a concept. Set it in Habsburg Germany. The window arches of the Toronto Free Theatre were a facsimile of the arches in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles. Mirrors. The ghost is just a figment of Hamlet’s imagination, he is in fact Hamlet talking to himself.