Cast includes Nicolas Vennekotter, Jennifer Finch, Charles Easterly, Allison Unger, Ryan Frenk, Colin David, James Van Matre, Michelle Wallace, Teagan Batts, Mason Conrad, Chase Harris, Ben Watt, Brian Gallagher, Alex Williams, Megan Holmes, AmyJo Foreman, Grace Worm, Daniel Kriel, Chase Crouse, and Chris Hailey.
The technical crew will be led by Senior Trevor Janecek.
The story involves young Fortinbras, a modern man of action, who enters during the last scene of Hamlet only to order the bodies of the royal family shuffled off while he devises the best possible media blitz to legitimize his ascension to the throne of Denmark. Horatio, sworn to the dead Hamlet to convey the truth of his actions, is immediately cast by Fortinbras into the role of an unwilling public relations person.
Meanwhile, Fortinbras is forced to balance a disastrous and mistaken invasion of Poland with a seductive and harrowing array of ghosts, ranging from a vampish Ophelia to a repentant Claudius and Gertrude, all of whom cast doubts in his mind as to what really makes up the character of a ruler.
Finally, Horatio, driven to madness by the refusal of everyone to believe in him, assassinates Fortinbras and then kills himself. In the afterworld, all of the characters reconvene, wiser now by their deaths and ready to make a new go of it in Elsinore.
“The play requires an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet without requiring students to assume the weight of the material. A comedy, it will require a sense of style in performance we have not done in several years,” Director Kathy Powdrell said. “It is funny, intellectual and would fit into a season of All Hamlet All the Time without doing Hamlet. “
Tickets will be $7 at the door. |
