Hamlet

- Directed by Paul Radford Set and Costume Design by Jeffrey Stegall Lighting design by Richard Streeter DIRECTOR’S NOTES Hamlet has played an important role in the history of Shakespearean performance at BJU. It was first performed in 1932 at the original campus in College Point, Florida. The production was so well received that the Classic Players took it on tour to several cities in Florida and Alabama. In 1933 Hamlet was the inaugural Classic Players production in Cleveland, Tennessee, the institution’s second home, where both players and play received a warm welcome. Happily, Shakespeare designed the play with enough intriguing interpretative issues to keep any director and cast from reducing it to a “definitive” version. Classic Players’ productions of Hamlet have been set in several different eras, including the early Renaissance and Cavalier periods. As the 1948 program suggests, “The spirit of the play knows no limit of time or place, but is univer