Jeffrey Hatcher's Hamlet
Illusion Theater
Star Tribune- Recommended
"...The 80-minute one-act is set in a classroom, and the chalkboard is actually a screen for projected images, mostly black-and-white. In one of them, we see a dour little Jeffrey, suited up and wearing his deerstalker Sherlock Holmes detective cap. We don’t have to imagine his isolation and loneliness. We see it on his pinched, pudgy face. This is not a young man destined for great things on the playing field."
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Rohan Preston
Twin Cities Pioneer Press- Recommended
"...Throughout, our narrator colors the scenes with evocative and often very funny metaphors and similes, proving a droll but delightful companion who never lets his memories slip into sentimental nostalgia. It's relatively low-key fun that doesn't deliver a powerful message or build to a strong climax. But that's OK, for it's a tale more about the journey toward staging a work than the destination of when the lights go up in front of an audience. This affectionate, refreshingly clear-eyed valentine to theater left me hoping to find Hatcher speaking his own words on area stages more often."
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Rob Hubbard
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