WCCO's Laura Oakes goes behind the scenes of Hamlet, where even the sword-fighting is choreographed down to the last step to ensure the actors' safety. It's an hour before show time. The seats are ...

Like the bread in an Italian restaurant and the desserts in a French café, the true litmus test for a production of “Hamlet” is the sword fight. The fatal foil exchange between Church’s ...

stage movement and physical action (other than a mimed sword fight toward the play’s end). Hamlet doesn’t even end up on the floor when he’s dead. Izzard is known and loved for comic roles ...