OK, let’s wrap up this play-within-a-play thing!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
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A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 3)
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 2)
Another op’nin’, another show
In London, Paris, or Elsinoe
A chance for stagefolks to reenact a murder
Another op’nin, another show…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Confession: I kind of love dumb shows.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 1)
Let’s get this play underway!
No, not this play. The other play. The play-within-a-play.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (part 4)
It’s NUNNERY TIME
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Seriously, if I was Ophelia I would 100% go to that nunnery, given the toxic attitudes of every single man in her life. Get away from there, honey.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (part 3)
OK, famous speech out of the way. Let’s keep going. Like some sharks, if we stop moving forward, we’ll die.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
stupid patriarchy card
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (part 2)
And we’re back! ALL TOGETHER NOW…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
HAMLET: “..the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns…”
GHOST: “What am I, chopped liver?”
Scene.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1
It’s a new day! It’s a new act!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Now, don’t get mad, but I’m actually taking next week off to go to the annual Shakespeare Theatre Association conference. But I’ll be back the week after that with You Know What (aka The Speech That Must Not Be Named). It’s gonna be fun!