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Richardson's other notable work included a portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in two films ( The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles), significant roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Brazil, M. Richardson was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor. He portrayed the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards (1990–1995) television trilogy. The climactic sword fight sequence was well-choreographed by Kit Wilder, managing director of San Jose’s City Lights Theater.Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor. Natti Pierce-Thomson’s evocative lighting was also a key feature, such as the scenes in which Hamlet speaks with his father’s ghost (played by Justin Gerard, grade 12, also cast as the player king, messenger and priest, and by Kaushik Sankar, grade 9, at the understudy show), drenched with red light and intensified by the reverb and bass that boomed throughout the Blackford Theater when the specter spoke.Įschewing the usual period garb, costume designer Caela Fujii placed the characters in modern attire more befitting a gangster movie, evidence of the transcendent power of the play’s themes of betrayal, revenge and moral conflict. Paul Vallerga’s set design made clever use of a large video monitor that changed with each setting. Grade 9 students Rishabh Chandra and Janet Lee were both strong as Polonius and Horatio, respectively. Claudius was well-played by freshmen Dhanush Madabus and MC Smitherman, and Shannon O’Shea and Cordelia Larsen, both grade 9, deftly handled the challenging role of Ophelia. Maya Nandakumar, grade 10, Rachel Renteria, grade 9, Simran Singh, grade 10 and Gurutam Thockchom, grade 9, were stirring as Hamlet, while Aashika Balaji, grade 9, and Madi Lang-Ree, grade 10, had convincing turns as Gertrude.

The Saturday matinee show featured an understudy cast that was very warmly received by the afternoon audience. In the role of Horatio, Claudia Tischler, grade 11, was more than effective as Hamlet’s best friend and confidant, and the brash, vengeful Laertes was expertly portrayed by Vishal Vaidya, grade 10.

The guileful Polonius, royal counselor and Ophelia’s father, was played by junior Damon Aitken, who brilliantly put across the character’s stately yet playful attitude. Other characters were portrayed by multiple players: Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, was played by Shazdeh Hussain, grade 11, and Cristina Jerney, grade 12 sophomore Jeton Gutierrez-Bujaru and junior Ian Richardson were Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle and murderer of his father and Ishanya Anthapur, grade 10, and Apurva Tandon, grade 12, portrayed Ophelia, Hamlet’s would-be lover.