Nice Things People Have Said
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Whenever I need a presence to fill an entire room, I call on Nicola. She's rangy: from leading romantic masc energy to bouncing farcical glee. The thing I treasure most about her is that she doesn't just take a note, she knows where the note comes from and integrates its meaning into her performance. I rarely come across a play that wouldn't be made better by having her in it
Alan Katz, Shakespeare in the Pub producer
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Collett takes on Hamlet with relish and authority, while Sweet plays the mother-stepdad team of Gertrude and Claudius—often hilariously so. Both actresses find themselves playing two characters –often adversarial characters—at once, so that the fun here is on multiple levels. You have the old story you know by heart, you have glimpses of your favorite characters and some of your favorite lines, but you also get to see Collett and Sweet find humor in their many, deft quick changes, while also mining the old material for new insights and humor in the bargain.
DC Theater Arts review of A Two Woman Hamlet.
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The boyishness of Collett's Hamlet modulates affectingly to quiet intensity when the prince waxes philosophic.