“Matt Bowdren’s Hamlet was haunting and haunted. He seems mad one moment, simply cunning the next. He is consumed with revenge but has tender moments. His sorrow and his passion are palpable...you get the sense that while Hamlet hears his father’s ghost when no one else can, speaks in riddles that seem to underscore his madness, and is wildly mercurial, he is crazy like a fox. Bowdren kept us glued to his actions and words, anxious to see where he would go to—and he would always go someplace interesting.”

“Here is what we loved. Matt Bowdren brought all of Iago’s awful qualities to devastating life. He made him charming, destructive, jealous, cruel. He was hard to turn away from.”