HVMLET
Adapted from Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Tatiana Baccari
Edited by Wednesday Sue Derrico
SheNYC Festival at The Connelly Theater, Summer 2017
Hamlet comes home from college to find her father dead. Claudia, a stone-butch lesbian and Hamlet’s aunt, seduces Gertrude, topples the patriarchy, and steals the throne with her bra-burning feminist followers. With the help of Horatio, her genderqueer best friend, Hamlet embarks on a quest to prove Claudia’s guilt and avenge her father’s murder. Hamlet becomes unhinged as she battles the waves of pressure from her royal family against questions of her own identity, sexuality and feminism. With tension between the queer millennials and second wave lesbians building, and a country rife with internal violence, what will become of Hamlet and Denmark’s new feminist ruling class?
Directed by Tatiana Baccari and Wednesday Sue Derrico
Set Design by Jenn Doun
Lighting by Jane Chan
Original Music and Sound Design by Ben Muller
Costume Design by Fiona Wiedermann
Properties by Matthew ZanFagna
Associate Producers: Jenny Hickman and Zac Gobetz
Stage Manager: Becky Abramowitz
Assistant Stage Managers: Wessel Van Shaik and Grayce Toon
Assistant Director: Vipassana Greene
Costume Supervisor: Madeline Wall
Costume Assistant/Stage Crew: Melodie Rosen
Stage Crew: Meghan O’Connor
Photos by Matthew Echelman
Produced by Annalise Kirby in association with Experimental Bitch Presents.