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Subject to Fits

by Robert Montgomery

Hamlet

adapted by Charles Marowitz
article by Elise Archias in SF Bay Guardian January 27, 1999

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SENSELESSNESS, discontinuity, and the comic portrayal of
grotesque isolation rise again for the kickoff of Exit Theatre's
fifth annual Absurdist Season. Some would say, in this year of
prurient revelations about our most vastly public and lonely
citizen, that they never left. In Robert Montgomery's Subject to
Fits, the characters from Dostoyevsky's Idiot find themselves
careening through the dark world of the novel clueless about
their purpose in the narrative. A score of live organ and cello
music sets the show's tone. Simultaneously launching the
season across the hall at Exit Stage Left is an 80-minute
adaptation of Hamlet by Charles Morowitz. Morowitz collages
elements of Shakespeare's scenes to make new ones and
has characters giving speeches from the play that don't
belong to them. It remains a play about the death of Hamlet's
father, but characters appear as Hamlet saw them during his
most nightmarish moments. The season continues through
July to include works by more canonized absurdists such as
Ionesco, Beckett, Sam Shepard, and Tom Stoppard.
Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; also Mon/8 and Mon/22, 8 p.m., 156 Eddy,
S.F. $10-$14. (415) 673-3847. (Elise Archias)

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