At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hiran Abeysekera Prepares to Play a Hamlet for Our Times
“He doesn’t look like any of the Hamlets we’ve had before, and that’s not just about his ethnicity,” says director Robert Hastie of Abeysekera. “He has a playful—sometimes confrontational, sometimes threatening, often mischievous—but always direct and sympathetic connection with an audience.”
Black News  in Hamlet at the National Theatre. (c) Sam Taylor 22.jpg)
“He doesn’t look like any of the Hamlets we’ve had before, and that’s not just about his ethnicity,” says director Robert Hastie of Abeysekera. “He has a playful—sometimes confrontational, sometimes threatening, often mischievous—but always direct and sympathetic connection with an audience.”
