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Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet Review. Step aside Lord Olivier. Make room for Jaimlet. Jaime Cruz, one of the eight cast members with Down syndrome who star in this “Hamlet,” mimics the posture of Laurence Olivier behind him, who leans against a rock reciting the “To Be Or Not To Be” soliloquy in a…

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Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet Review. Step aside Lord Olivier. Make room for Jaimlet. Jaime Cruz, one of the eight cast members with Down syndrome who star in this “Hamlet,” mimics the posture of Laurence Olivier behind him, who leans against a rock reciting the “To Be Or Not To Be” soliloquy in a projection of a 1948 recording. Álvaro Toledo, one of the other castmates, objects. He asks the audience to raise hands if we would rather hear from the eight of them rather than the famous Shakespearian. All hands go up. Toldeo offers the soliloquy as a rap..in Spanish. This in a nutshell is the “Hamlet” that has been written and directed by Chela De Ferrari, the founder of the 23-year-old Teatro La Plaza of Peru, which uses Shakespeare’s play less as text than pretext for a celebration of the cast - and by the cast - not despite of their genetic condition but because of it. https://newyorktheater.me/2026/03/28/teatro-la-plazas-hamlet-review/