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I am Hamlet

by Mark Jackson, Art Street Theatre
article in SF Weekly Night and Day March 12, 2002

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After spending 400 years in purgatory watching helplessly as his own
story gets picked apart by countless academics, directors, and
actors, Shakespeare’s depressed and wishy-washy Dane gets to
have his say in Art Street Theater’s latest production, I Am
Hamlet. Written and performed by the troupe’s artistic director,
Mark Jackson, the solo show is a sendup of the excessive
importance placed upon this particular creation of the Bard. The
company, which debuted at the S.F. Fringe Festival in 1995, excels
at creating meta-theater pieces like Bang!, a parody of the
experimental theater scene, and staging classics with a twist, as in
last year’s popular Io — Princess of Argos!, Jackson’s reinterpretation
of a Greek myth as a Las Vegas–style musical (to be restaged this
April by the Encore Theater Company). With this piece, Jackson
allows Hamlet his two cents, letting audiences in on what it might
have been like to be him. “All that uninvited analysis? It must be
hell,” says Jackson. The show begins at 8 p.m. and plays through
April 13 at Exit Stage Left, 156 Eddy (at Mason), S.F. Tickets are
$10-20; call 751-5922.

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