'Hamlet' Off Broadway Review: What if Truman Capote Had Ever Played the Bard's Moody Dane?

'Hamlet' Off Broadway Review: What if Truman Capote Had Ever Played the Bard's Moody Dane?

It’s the white stocking cap. Hiran Abeysekera wears one when his Hamlet makes that cold but scuttled boat trip from Denmark to England. A man wearing a white stocking cap is not the most eccentric aspect of the “Hamlet” revival that opened Monday at BAM’s Harvey Theatre after a run at London’s National Theatre. The headwear, however, does give us a clue to what Shakespeare’s famous Dane would have been if Truman Capote had ever played the role. …