SCENE, the courtyard of Kronborg Castle. 'The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold', says Hamlet. Horatio agrees: 'It is a nipping and an eager air'. The Danes, knowing their climate, have brought blankets to huddle in and hire more at the interval. But it is still a notable occasion. The Birmingham Repertory Theatre has brought its Hamlet to Kronborg Castle, Helsingor -- Shakespeare's Elsinore. And Kronborg owns the birth certificate of Hamlet.
For the English players have been ...