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Building Hamlet: Behind the Scenes at Yale Rep (pt. 2)

January 07, 2013

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. In this second installment, she shares photos and stories (and blisters) from the model-building process.

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