It's choppy and direct; the speeches are less flowery. It really lends itself to the film noir style.

Film noir is all about murder, passion, espionage and revenge, and that's what 'Hamlet' is about. So I felt this approach to the play would be interesting and appropriate.

It's a challenging play to do, but we like to challenge the students in this program. And they're up to it.

It also includes the typical strong-willed woman of the film noir style; only, in this case there are 10 of them. Yes, there are 10 girls in Nine Girls, that is until ....

But Peter is the real thing - a great actor on stage, on film. He won't go out of style.

I remember when (graffiti film) 'Wild Style' came to the (Honolulu) Academy of Arts. We loaded up the family in the station wagon. At the theater it was us and a couple of hippies from UH.