January 13, 1956
TRIBUTE TO MINOTIS: (From a commentary by Emilios Hourmouzios on the unfavorable criticism of Alexis Minotis’s performance in «Hamlet») – «(…) Alexis Minotis’s interpretation (both as a director and actor) was in accordance with more recent, theoretical foundations as well as that accepted by the most distinguished Shakespeare experts as a psychological approach to ‘Hamlet.’ ‘Hamlet’ is not one person on a stage. He is 10, he is 1,000. Every performance on every stage with a different person in the role reveals another facet of the prism. (…) The careful observer will see in Minotis’s interpretation a continual effort to elicit the Shakespearean spirit. (…) It requires an outstandingly flexible talent, an open mind, and an ability to absorb the shades of meaning. Minotis showed that he has those abilities and his ‘Hamlet’ was – and I say so unreservedly – one of the most wonderful and integrated achievements in Shakespearean drama. His vision embraced the wide range of the hero’s psychology in the significant moments of the tragic myth and had the perceptiveness not to leave out secondary
