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Ophelia

By Anthony Ray Bench | January 2018

Based on a novel by Lisa Klein, Ophelia is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s classic play, Hamlet, as told from the perspective of…

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Based on a novel by Lisa Klein, Ophelia is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s classic play, Hamlet, as told from the perspective of a secondary character....

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The key to Tyrel, Sebastian Silva’s shrewd and timely racial tension drama, is the patois. “Pussy!” the men, spending a weekend together in a remote...

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