This will not be your father’s “Hamlet” — or even your dead-king father’s “Hamlet” — when writer-director Robert O’Hara’s reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at the Mark Taper Forum this week. O’Hara, who was Tony-nominated for directing “Slave Play” (which he also brought out to L.A. at the Mark Taper), says he is thrilled to be getting a too-rare chance to direct a work from the classical theater canon, but no one will mistake this for a traditional rendering. Not when O’Hara has remodeled it as a contemporary story set in L.A. and rife with film noir influences, and with some twists that cast further doubt on the
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