Shakespeare in the Park (The New York Shakespeare Festival)

(Page 3 of 3) But of all the Shakespeare Festivals of the 1950s and 1960s, the New York Shakespeare Festival was perhaps the boldest in its experimentation. Its Hamlet of 1968, the year in which NYSF also produced the musical Hair, revealed that spirit in its cutting of the text and its choice to make Hamlet a kind of Puerto Rican street prince. Many balked at the radical nature of some of the experiments, but the continually evolving, sometimes restless, sometimes buoyant and cheery spirit of exploration would draw new fans to the venues with the news that Shakespeare spoke a language they could understand.

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