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Teen-beat flourishes from 1980s John Hughes cinema inform the Redhouse’s revamp of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

John Hughes’ 1985 movie The Breakfast Club was a profound and shaping experience for many creative people now in their mid-30s to late 40s. Together with such style-setting TV shows as Miami Vice, it defines the 1980s as discrete good old days of garish colors and let-it-all-hang-out emotion. Redhouse Arts Center director Stephen Svoboda has embraced the Me Decade effusively in his provocative and arresting adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, running through April 5.
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