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Directed by Adrienne Major
Brattleboro, June 24-27
Turners Falls, July 2 & 3
Charlestown, N.H., July 9 & 10
Simply put, Hamlet is a play about a college student. A youth on the threshold of manhood endowed with striking intelligence, low-burning anger, antic humor and a streak of viciousness. But even more—he’s in line for the throne of Denmark. At the death his beloved father, he is kept both from his inheritance and from his return to college by the collusions of his mother, with whom his relationship is…complicated, and his uncle, whom he loathes. During the course of the play Hamlet works through his grief, nourishes his anger, and, in a series of lightning decisions, moves to determine whether or not he should be the judge and jury of his Uncle’s treachery. This production seeks to emphasize both Hamlet’s inherent intelligence and his sense of justice in not attempting immediate and retributive revenge without meaningful evidence.
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