HAMLET PROJECT
We Happy Few Productions
Washington, DC
2018 - 2022
WHAT IT IS
Hamlet Project is a 5-year exploration of Shakespeare's most famous play designed to pull-apart and put back together Hamlet. For five years, we'll be experimenting with music, art, sound, dance, zoom, food, drink, cookies, traffic cones, spaceships, or whatever else we can get our hands on to turn Hamlet inside-out and-upside down! Each project will be an original and distinct theatrical event of unparalleled ambition and imagination.
PRODUCTIONS
"Blissful” Chris Rustic and “Slick” Nick Riot of A RUSTIC RIOT are just playing a regular rock 'n’ roll gig, when their sweet tunes unexpectedly summon the ghosts from HAMLET - who hijack the show to tell their story one rock song at a time, spiraling us towards the dramatic denouement. Will Nick and Chris be able to finish their gig? Can indie rock prevent the greatest tragedy ever written? And who invited Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, anyway?
We provide the text of Hamlet, scissors, and glue sticks. Your job: cut up the script. Reorder it. Rewrite it. Reassign it. Reimagine it completely. Are you tired of how wishy-washy Hamlet is? Change his motivations! Do you wish Ophelia had more to say? Give her some of your favorite lines! Have you ever wondered how your verse sounds next to Shakespeare’s? Now’s the time to find out! Take one of the best known texts in the Shakespeare cannon and make it your own.
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REVIEWS and ARTICLES
"The idea and overall project is a refreshing attempt to bring audiences back in touch with one of the greatest pieces of literature of all time." - DC Metro Theater Arts