"'Great liberties are taken with the action': Siobhán McKenna's 'experimental version' of Hamlet"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo663/
Author:
	McHugh, Emer.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2025
Publication Information:
	Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations, 185–99.
:
	Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations
Annotation:
	Drawing on promptbook evidence, revisits Siobhán McKenna's 1957 one-woman Hamlet production in the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), directed by Henry Hewes, which was poorly reviewed. Positions production in terms of McKenna's career and position as both "Shakespearean actor" and "Irish actor." Points to lacunae of lost texts and productions in both archives and theatre histories.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	McKenna, Siobhán; Hewes, Henry
Tags:
	Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo663