NRT Presents: Hamlet
NO REFUND THEATRE PRESENTS: HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Thursday, December 1st in 105 Forum at 9:30
Friday, December 2nd in 111 Forum at 8:00
Saturday, December 3rd in 111 Forum at 8:00
FREE ADMISSION!!!!
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Directed by Max Simone
Assistant Directed by Katie Hartman and Nicole O’Block
The most famous revenge story ever written, this unique adaptation of Hamlet displaces the Danish prince in the war torn wreckage of mid-90′s Eastern Europe. Following the old King Hamlet’s death a sudden civil war has transformed the once beautiful city of Elsinore into a wasteland of ruin and disease. Denmark is now beset by rebels while trying to stave off an invasion from a Western general named Fortinbras. As the play opens King Claudius, the new king of Denmark and brother to past King Hamlet, is being wed to Gertrude, King Hamlet’s widow. Though the marriage has created quite a controversy, all of Denmark is in celebration for a show of unity and joy to dispel the bleak war and recent death of King Hamlet. All of Denmark except for one: The titular Prince Hamlet, son of old King Hamlet. During a fateful night, Hamlet encounters what appears to be the ghost of his father revealing that Claudius killed King Hamlet to take the King’s wife and throne as his own. This earth-shattering revelation prompts the revenge that will lead to death and destruction as Hamlet must conquer with his own indecision before the struggle consumes himself and his sanity.
Hamlet: Ryan Bergman
Ophelia: Elaina Mercurio
Claudius: Martin Byrne
Gertrude: Hilary Caldwell
Horatio: Rachel Sweeney
Polonius: Paul Them
Laertes: Travis Czap
Ghost: Ned Zimmerman
Grave-Digger: Robin Kowa
Marcellus: Natalie Weston
Bernardo: Michelle Fontan
Francisco: Regina Manzick
Rosencrantz: Morgan Pfeiffer
Guildenstern: Bryan Keith
