English Repertory Theatre

There is no ghost. There is no equivocation. Only revenge.

Horatio teaches the Modern History of Denmark to four very bored and privileged kids at the Palace of Elsinore; Laertes, his sister Ophelia, who is in love with Hamlet, Prince Hamlet himself and his slippery friend, Rosencrantz. Hamlet isn't happy. A letter from his dead father explains that Uncle Claudius bumped him off to take the throne, and to rub salt into the wound he's only gone and married Hamlet's Mum Gertrude. This injustice will not stand, and a murderous Hamlet sets out on a roaring rampage of revenge. Never paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament with matters getting completely out of hand and everyone dying a very nasty death.