Let's see...what new way can the role of Hamlet be interpreted that hasn't been done a zillion times before? (Snapping fingers.) Wait! We know! Make him totally nude for the entire play! (Pause.) Drat. Cutie-pie French actor Robin Causse has already done it!
A 2010 production (yes, we just discovered this now) of Shakespeare's play premiered at Paris' Theatre de Vanves and featured brave young otter Causse prancing around au naturale, making audiences as sexually tormented as Hamlet is mentally tormented by daddy's ghost. The production is literally bare bones. What could be the dramatic reason for a nude Hamlet, besides a leering director? We're guessing in order to save on budget, they just decided to do away with the Prince's costume altogether.
We give it 5 stars!
As always when the curtain rises on delicious stage nudity, some lecher surreptitiously films it, as you can watch above, starting at :33. However, more amazing to us are the crystal clear publicity shots where Causse freely has his untrimmed peen preserved for posterity. You'll never see that for Broadway! Daniel Radcliffe went full frontal for "Equus," and all we got was this grainy video.
· Robin Causse, un Hamlet à poil(s) sur la scène du Théâtre de Vanves (coquin.acdg.fr)