Context:
Greg Hicks was originally asked to play just the Ghost but
now finds the trebling fascinating with resonances of Hamlet's
father in each one. The Ghost is the first of Greg Hick's
characters to appear giving Hamlet his mission for vengeance.
The actor is next seen as the leader of the Players who gives
an impromptu delivery of the fall of Troy. Again the subject
is of murder, vengeance and the grief of a widow. Pyrrhus
is described savagely as decorated ‘with blood of fathers’;
where Priam whom he kills is called ‘reverend’.
It is this performance which provokes Hamlet into desperate
reflection on how little he has done; and this reflection
has additional energy since his meeting a man who looks like
his father! This 'similarity' was exploited in The Mousetrap
scene where, this time appearing as the Player King Gonzago, Greg
reached out towards Gertrude at the moment of his death. By
this stage we have, with Hamlet, a sense of seeing his father
everywhere, so it seems natural when Greg appears finally
as the Gravedigger, standing in the same ground that the Ghost
re-entered earlier, surrounded by skulls. | 
