World Première
A Stratford Festival Commission
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Based on an idea developed by Alisa Palmer, Vita Brevis Arts
Directed by Alisa Palmer
This production includes mature content, reference to suicide, domestic violence and coarse language. It also makes use of flashing lights, theatrical haze and fog.
WHO KNOWS WHAT DREAMS MAY COME?
Actor Guinness Menzies has landed his dream role: he’s playing Hamlet at the Stratford Festival. But just before a matinée performance, he suddenly finds himself in the Underworld, a strange realm as frightening as it is hilarious, where time is seriously out of joint. Has he gone mad? Is he dreaming? Has he died…? Meanwhile, teenager Jeremy reaches out to Guinness online as he wrestles with his own version of Hamlet’s famous life-or-death dilemma.
House Program: Hamlet-911
Runtime: One hour and 43 minutes. This performance has no interval.
Production support is generously provided by the Harkins & Manning families in memory of Jim & Susan Harkins.
Support for the creation of Hamlet-911 is generously provided by The Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program.
Photo credits: Mike Shara as Guinness Menzies in Hamlet-911. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
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