"The play is very impressively staged, particularly for such a bare-bones performance space." - PlayShakespeare.com

"...the acting is very, very good by this talented cast, the direction (by Troy Miller) is inventive and at times ingenious, the fight choreography (by Rini) is well done and its execution by the company is impressive. Even the music is nicely done and, in true ensemble fashion, all five of the players are credited with its composition." - nytheatre.com

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 PERFORMANCES

"...scene is reproduced by a group of five actors who form a sort of chorus for the play and whom Horatio (Richard Gallagher, in an outstanding performance)..." -offoffonline.com

at
The Linhart Theater
at 440 Studios
(440 Lafayette St.)
Sunday 8/12 at 9:15pm
Monday 8/13 at 5:15pm

Sunday 8/19 at 2pm
Thursday 8/23 at 7:15pm
Saturday 8/25 at 4:30pm
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Director Troy Miller, however, enlivens the project with imaginative and highly theatrical staging..."  -Backstage.com

"Assante’s bold experiment with the hallowed Hamlet will linger in the mind long after its much less bloody conclusion." -offoffonline.com
 

  CAST

"Assante's means to her end is in itself quite clever...a massive and impressive undertaking."   -nytheatre.com

"This is exciting, but challenging. Shakespeare scholars and anyone who enjoys parsing difficult plays should plan to attend at least twice in order get the most from the experience that is Horatio." -offoffonline.com

"Pasha, wild-eyed, terrifies those on stage as well as everyone in the audience." -offoffonline.com
 

"Horatio is an interesting experiment and an entertaining play..." - PlayShakespeare.com

Horatio   Hamlet
Richard Gallagher John Pasha
The Players
Matt Stapleton     Wayne Henry Matt Hussong Ian

alda

Matthew

Rini

Gallagher’s Horatio is wry and deep, and Gallagher’s command of the language makes him great to watch. - PlayShakespeare.com

The Players also provide the music, and this is perhaps one of the most enthralling elements of the show. They sing, they hum in harmony, and in the climactic sword fight, they provide a riveting fight theme with only a recorder and the percussion of hands against the trunk and the floor. Their score is so fitting and well performed that one often forgets that it’s not being piped in through speakers, but is actually being performed with no instruments by the actors on stage.
 - PlayShakespeare.com

Production Photographs

Shakespeare often inspires dramatic stagecraft, and there's no shortage of that in Isabelle Assante's "Horatio."      -TimeOutNY

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ISABELLE ASSANTE: Currently a resident of New York, Isabelle's plays are produced all over Europe, the U.S. and Canada. She studied with luminary playwrights such as Mac Wellman and Christopher Shinn. Her repertoire includes plays written in her native French as well as in English. She is published in France by Art et Comédie. Her radio play (Life and The Theater) was featured in the NYU literary magazine, www.epyphanyzine.com. Her latest play - ARTICLE 5 - is presently getting a stage reading in France, UK, Canada and Australia. http://booksbyisabelleassante.blogspot.com/

 

Richard Gallagher: New York:  A Taste of Heaven, NY Fringe (2003); Genesis: 7 Breakthrough Plays, First Hand Theatre Company.  Regional work includes work at Yale Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre and a number of San Francisco Bay Area credits: Fugitive Kind, Marin Theatre Company; Old Money and Spinning Into Butter, TheatreWorks, Palo Alto; The Magic Theatre; New Conservatory Theatre Center; Playground Festival; Theatre Rhinoceros. Upcoming film: El Camino, with Leo Fitzpatrick, Elisabeth Moss, & Christopher Denham.  Richard holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.

 

John Pasha: Most recently, Pasha played Darcy in Pride and Prejudice and Nick in Expecting Isabel at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. Other regional theater credits include: the title role in Dracula: Lord of the Undead at The Fulton Opera House, Hamlet (Taiwan national tour) at the American Shakespeare Theater,  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Bloodline: the Children of Argos at The Hangar Theater, The Mousetrap at The Pioneer Theater Company, Private Lives at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Illusion at The Clarence Brown Theatre Company, Arms and the Man at The Sacramento Theater Company, The Sins of Sor Juana at Southwest Repertory and seasons at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, New Mexico Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, & The Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.) TV/ Film credits include Pop Rocks, which won the Audience Award  Best Short at the Breckenridge Film Festival, One Life To Live, All My Children, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and John can be seen in the documentary Within a Play on the Sundance Channel. Training: M.F.A. The University of Delaware PTTP; B.F.A. Boston University ; RADA

 

Matt Stapleton:Matt Stapleton is excited to be working yet again with director Troy Miller, having worked with him at Emerging Artists Theatre and other venues.  He has most recently been seen performing with Phoenix Theatre Ensemble and Milk Can Theatre Co.  Other theatres include HERE Arts Center, Shakespeare on the Sound, Berkshire Theatre Festival.  He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
 

Wayne Henry:earned his BA in Theatre Arts at Brandeis University and trained in London with RADA.  TV appearances include “Saturday Night Live,” “Good Day New York,” and “The Colin Quinn Show.”  Wayne performs improv with the troupes The Hamptons and  AfterPants, and is one-half of the comedy team of Henry & Stein with his friend Suzanne Stein.  They appear all over NYC including at Caroline’s, The P.I.T, The Magnet, and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.  Numerous Off-Off Broadway credits include the past 4 years as a resident actor with Emerging Artists Theatre.  This is Wayne’s second play directed by Troy Miller.  Perhaps someday there will be a third.  Wayne wrote “Jaws: the Unauthorized Musical” winning the Strawberry One-Act Festival in 2003…and he’s still talking about it.

 

Matt Hussong: Originally from Indiana, Matt has called New York City home for over 10 years now.  “Horatio” marks his return to the boards after spending a year studying pre-med.  Now that he knows what a “duodenum” is, he’s excited to get back to his first love.  Other stage credits included Captain Hook in “Peter Pan” (Theaterworks USA), Sir Walter Raleigh in “The Lost Colony” (Manteo, NC) and Leo in “Lead Heavy Sky” (NY Int’l Fringe Festival, 2003).  Matt holds a B.A. in theater from Anderson University and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC.

 

Ian Alda: Ian Alda is a recent graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film at SUNY Purchase. Purchase Repertory credits include Konstantine in The Seagull, Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, and Freddy in James Joyce's The Dead. Other credits include Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Shakespeare Santa Barbara and Antipholus of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors with TheatreWorks Colorado. Training: BFA SUNY Purchase College.

 

Matthew Rini: Has a BFA from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts.   He has performed many of the Bard's works, including Midsummer, Shrew, Much Ado, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra. Contemporary plays include Dancing at Lughnasa, Rumors, Museum, Cosi and the premiere of the new play Sex and Hunger.  In addition to acting, Matthew is also a working fight choreographer, and a member of the Society of American Fight Directors.  Matthew has choreographed for a variety of companies including Piper Theatre Productions, The Lark Theatre Company and the Access Theatre, and, on occasion, teches stage combat as well.
 

Artistic Team

Set Design: Matthew Miller

Lighting Design: Matthew Miller

Costume Design: Summer Lee Jack

Stage Manager: Amanda Elaan

 

 

To tell my Hamlet’s story or not to

That is the journey we must travel on.

Is’t nobler to tell true or to suffer?

Can I take arms against the sea of deceit,

And by opposing, end them. To live, to speak

Hamlet’s story; and by that story give him life.