Brook adds an Irish jig to the gravedigger scene, and has Polonius play a tune on the cushion while instructing Ophelia.

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He is more successful in combining Polonius's role with that of the gravedigger, with both roles brilliantly played by Bruce Myers.

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Peter de Jersey's Horatio is wonderfully endearing, Oliver Ford Davies is hilarious as doddery old Polonius, while Mariah Gale's Ophelia has a haunting vulnerability.

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