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A Hamlet of our time

Hamlet Rescheduled

New dates for Hamlet are:

May 5 at 6:30 pm, May 6 at 7:30 pm, Saturday May 7, at 2 pm and

7:30 pm

Directed by Robert Gilbert

Designed by Julian Southgate

The circumstances have changed. A major earthquake and the tragic death of Jaime Gilbert, director Robert Gilbert's son, have shaken us to the core.

Robert, however, feels that in memory of Jaime and out of respect for the fine work already completed by cast and crew that the production should carry on.

Robert himself will take over the role of Laertes for Jaime. A courageous decision.  The  Hamlet company and Repertory committee are fully behind Robert and feel privileged to be part of the great play rescheduled.  

In this compelling, fresh-minted production of Shakespeare's great play we meet a Hamlet of our time, played in contemporary dress on a towering fortress set, monitored by security guards and other trappings of modern surveillance.

It is a palace mired in political and military tensions.

Hamlet returns from his university abroad to mourn his father's untimely death (so excellent a King).

Instead, he is greeted with the excesses of a decadent dictatorial state.

With suspect speed his uncle, now the king, has married his brother's wife, Hamlet's mother (it is not, nor it cannot come to good).

Then, in a series of rare spectral visitations, Hamlet learns the truth and is urged to revenge.

The multi-layered complexity of Hamlet's personality has fascinated theatre-goers and scholars alike for centuries. Merging the eloquence of Shakespeare's incomparable text with gripping visual action, this Hamlet will undoubtedly be a hit - a palpable hit!

Cast of Players