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Stage
Hamlet
In 1995, Reeves played Hamlet at the Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) in Winnipeg to sold-out crowds every night, and what was intended to be purely an acting exercise for the up-and-coming young action star turned out to be an unprecedented cultural event. Steven Schipper, the Artistic Director of the MTC, asked Lewis Baumander to direct the play since he had previously worked with Reeves in a production of Romeo and Juliet at Leah Posluns Theatre School in Toronto in 1985. Baumander enthusiastically agreed and he gave Reeves a choice. He explained to the actor, “We could do it in London and do a Richard Chamberlain “I have arrived” kind of number. We could do it in New York. […] Or we could go out to Winnipeg, where nobody would know about it and just work out.” Reeves liked the idea of “working out” and agreed to Schipper’s invitation to work at the MTC.
Source: Canadians Shakespeares
