Brook adds an Irish jig to the gravedigger scene, and has Polonius play a tune on the cushion while instructing Ophelia.

BBC: Brook rejuvenates Hamlet

He is more successful in combining Polonius's role with that of the gravedigger, with both roles brilliantly played by Bruce Myers.

BBC: Brook rejuvenates Hamlet

But occasionally, the result is more like The High Strung on "Gravedigger, " which seems to condense the entirety of The Who's Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy into a single song.

NPR: Digging Up the Past, in More Ways Than One

He was seen first by the gravedigger, a man who was nearly blind, and who did not trust his eyes to tell him that a tiger, braced on its hind legs, was rummaging through the churchyard garbage heap, mouthing thistles in the early-morning sunlight.

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