Sam Bobrick, Original story by William Shakespeare

Full Length, Comedy

11 m, 2 f (doubling possible)

Simple ints/exts

Hamlet II is a mad, zany parody of the original with a much happier ending. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern come off like Groucho Marx, Ophelia is a loose woman and alas, poor Yorick is turned into a crazy comic. Then there's Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes and the old dead King as you've never seen them before. And what does Prince Hamlet think of this new approach to his life? He loves it and why not? To catch the conscience of the king, he gets to write a hit musical. Also included are the loves, hates, sword fights, poetry, religion, treachery and deceit that go with the territory as well as occasional stabs at the meaning of life.

FEE: $75 per performance.