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Building Hamlet: Behind the Scenes at Yale Rep (pt. 3)

January 16, 2013

Meredith Ries, a set designer in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening this spring. Today, a tale of triumphant design meetings and the dark, looming clouds of budgeting — a tale she calls In the Red.

Building Hamlet: Behind the Scenes at Yale Rep (Part I)

By Meredith B. Ries

December 07, 2012

Meredith Ries, a set designer currently in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing a multi-part series about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening in the spring of 2013. Part 1: "What Exactly Is It That You Do?"

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