some fun facts about the production of hamlet i’m in right now:
- the ghost never appears physically
- ghost scenes take place in complete darkness, lit only by the guards’ flashlights
- rosencrantz and guildenstern’s first entrance involves a tango choreographed to beyoncé’s “crazy in love”
- other transition music includes “applause” by lady gaga, “loveless” by lorde, “only angel” by harry styles, and “a little party never killed nobody”
- gertrude is either drunk or hungover for the entire play
- when polonius encounters hamlet to find the cause of his madness, hamlet is reading a copy of “infinite jest”
- rosencrantz and guildenstern try to seduce hamlet into a threesome
- they also try to seduce claudius
- at intermission laertes goes onstage to practice his swordplay and flirt with the audience members in french. osric watches him from behind the curtain and takes notes
- the pirates who deliver letters to horatio are dressed in trench coats, sunglasses, and fedoras
- fortinbras is a thirteen-year-old boy
and finally:
- hamlet doesn’t give the “to be or not to be” speech. horatio does. at the end of the play. over hamlet’s body
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