Fortinbras
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Lee Blessing's play imagines a restless young soldier of today, eager to act, who steps onto the stage at the very end of Shakespeare's tragedy. He appears only in the closing moments of the familiar drama, so he arrives after nearly everything has already happened. The play explores what a figure of decisive action makes of a world built on brooding and hesitation, and how the classic story looks through his unfamiliar, impatient eyes. Its comedy grows from the clash between his brisk, modern manner and the courtly, doomed people around him, who are not quite sure what to make of him.
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