Hamlet -2009- 🎁 Easy

This is Hamlet for the year of swine flu, Twitter, and two wars. Denmark is a surveillance state, rotten not with treason but with apathy, live feeds, and solipsism.

Here’s a short interpretive piece inspired by Hamlet (with a focus on a 2009 production context — perhaps the RSC’s David Tennant/Patrick Stewart version or another contemporary staging): hamlet -2009-

No one says “good night, sweet prince.” They just ghost him. Then the lights flicker. Then the sound of rain on a skylight. Then — silence, save for one missed call from a father who was never really dead, only on hold. This is Hamlet for the year of swine

And when Hamlet finally stabs the arras, he’s not sure if he’s killed a man or a metaphor. The skull in the graveyard has a Bluetooth earpiece still attached. Then the lights flicker