Losangelesblade.com, Volume 05, Issue 20, May 14, 2021

Adam Lambert stars in OUTLOUD: Raising Voices concert series, PAGE 03

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It’s a controversy that isn’t likely to go away, considering the fact that anyone who might give us first-hand knowledge on the subject has been dead for about 400 years. And while some contemporary artists, across various media, have been willing to explore the playwright’s work through the lens of his possible queerness, most cinematic interpretations – with a few notable exceptions, like Derek Jarman’s “The Tempest” – have kept things decidedly hetero-centric.

Paul Warner, director of the soon-to-be-released “Hamlet/Horatio,” which riffs on a central but often overlooked relationship in Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy, can’t imagine why.

A graduate of both Harvard and the American Film Institute, Warner is currently a senior instructor of acting, directing, and producing at The New York Film Academy. He’s also a Shakespeare veteran, having been involved in many stage renditions of the Bard’s work (including a rock musical version of “Twelfth Night”) throughout his career – and as he tells the Blade, it’s obvious to him that the revered wordsmith was either gay or bisexual.

“There’s a tremendous amount of exploration of gender fluidity in his work,” he says.

“There’s never a label on it, but it permeates Shakespeare. There are a lot of characters who fall in love with the soul of the person, rather than the gender.”

While these themes may run through comedies like “Twelfth Night” or “As You Like It,” they -1%&.+*)#<%1-7$/&$%))&+74#+6)&#*&:"-;%)0%-1%()&'1-2%<#%)&?&76'&'"-'&<+%)*('&3%-*&'"%/&-1%*('& there, and Warner’s new film hinges on using them to illuminate one of the most iconic male 91#%*<)"#0)&#*&$#'%1-'61%>& For those unfamiliar, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is the tale of a Danish prince, who is visited 7/&'"%&2"+)'&+9&"#)&1%.%*'$/&361<%1%<&9-'"%1&-*<&'+$<&'+&)%%;&1%4%*2%&-2-#*)'&'"%&361<%1%1& – none other than Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, who has not only murdered the former king but taken both his throne and his queen, Gertrude, who is also Hamlet’s mother. Seeking confirmation of the crime, Hamlet engages in a game of cat-and-mouse with his uncle, in which both Hamlet’s presumed future bride Ophelia and her brother Laertes become unwitting pawns. It goes without saying that things don’t turn out well – but through it all, one steadfast and trusted figure stands at Hamlet’s side: his confidant and companion, Horatio.

“Hamlet/Horatio,” which Warner directed from a script by playwright (and frequent stage collaborator) David Vando, reimagines the original play through an unusual conceit. In his dying moments, Hamlet (Andrew Burdette) sees his life flashing before his eyes, unfolding through a film that Horatio (Themo Melikidze) directs to tell his story. By shuffling dialogue, resetting scenes, and leaning deeply into subtext, Warner reframes Hamlet’s experience into -&)'+1/&+9&)0#1#'6-$&-*<&"63-*#)'#.&'1-*).%*<%*.%&?&-*<&1%4%-$)&-&<%%0$/&#*'#3-'%5&$+4#*2&7+*<& between these two young men that has perhaps been “hiding in plain sight” all along.

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now that the intention behind Vondo’s script (which he helped to adapt into a screenplay) was to “move past” that conception.

“Part of it was trying not to make things ‘gay’ or ‘straight,’ or ‘this’ or ‘that’ anymore, but really it’s about two people who are flip sides of each other,” he explains. “They are spiritually two )#<%)&+9&'"%&)-3%&.+#*>&@*<&'"%/(1%&#*&-&1%$-'#+*)"#0&?&#'()&.$%-1&'"-'&'"%1%&#)&-&1%01%))%<&$+4%& there. And there’s definitely an exploration of their homosexuality, but also of the fluidity of '"%#1&)%,6-$#'/> “This is why the characters don’t wear their ‘identities’ on their sleeves. We wanted to show something more closely resembling a non-binary, gender-fluid vision of love and sexuality that is part of a bigger story about human truth.”

To that end, he envisioned a version of “Hamlet” in which the Denmark’s Elsinore castle bears a striking resemblance to the Trump White House. The usurping king is a despot posing -)&-&7%*%9-.'+15&%,%1'#*2&-*&-6'"+1#'-1#-*&16$%&-*<&)%''#*2&'"%&0%+0$%&.$+)%&'+&"#3&-2-#*)'& each other to prove their loyalty, while his queen turns a blind eye to his increasingly obvious 3#)<%%<)> “Maybe I’m one-sided, but I tried to depict the ‘ickyness’ of that Melania-Donald dynamic between Claudius and Gertrude,” he says, not without a hint of relish. “I’ve made her trapped, like Melania, and she’s constantly drinking – she’s an immigrant, and she doesn’t speak up because she’s controlled by his finances.”

In this light, as Warner puts it, Hamlet becomes a hero of resistance, who rises to “slay” fascism, while Horatio is the filmmaker who documents it.

“It’s ultimately about Hamlet’s spiritual journey to fullness. It’s about him letting go of rage and embracing the light.”

Yet, when all is said and done, it’s the love between these two men that shines above all %$)%> “Hamlet eventually sacrifices his life to root out the corruption and to save those who are still alive – which is basically Horatio, his boyfriend, because everybody else is dead.”

“Hamlet/Horatio” has already played in front of audiences at a number of festivals, and has taken honors at several of them – including a Best Feature Film Jury Award at last year’s inaugural FFTG (Film Festivals to Go) Fest. The enthusiastic response has given Warner reason to hope that, despite his “queering of Shakespeare,” his film will find a “wider audience” when #'&<%76')&+*&<#2#'-$&0$-'9+13)&#*&A6*%> Of course, Warner fully expects to be raked across the coals for some of the liberties he has taken, such as the choice to cast transgender Native American actor Ty Defoe as the Player King and the inclusion of a scene where Hamlet and Horatio take a steam bath together – “which is not anywhere in ‘Hamlet,’ of course,” he says with a laugh. :'#$$5&9+1&"#35&"#)&-001+-."&'+&'"%&3-'%1#-$&1#*2)&'16%&'+&'"%&)+61.%> “There’s a timelessness in the way Shakespeare deals with the danger of rage, and how that threatens spirituality. In his plays, you always have the autocrats, who want to control others, and then you have the purer people, usually younger characters, like Hamlet, who propose love, who pursue a humanitarian vision against them. That’s Shakespeare, who was, of course, writing under a monarchy.

“And after four years of authoritarian rule under Trump, I think he was way ahead of his time.”

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