`Hamlet,' Hulce & the Issue Of Character; What's Left To Bring to the Role? The Actor Finds Out Tonight.

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 23, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

Tom Hulce had already earned his stage spurs in "Equus" when his Academy Award nomination for 1984's "Amadeus" guaranteed him movie marquee value as well. His shock-headed, manic Mozart defined the composer for a popular audience. Now the 38-year-old Hulce - who passes for a decade younger and sounds two decades wiser - is following a long line of legends into "Hamlet," which opens tonight at the Shakespeare Theatre.

How will he carve his initials into the castle of Elsinore?

"Everyone has advice about this play, and everyone has advice about this part," says Hulce quietly, nursing his ...

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