Hamlet And Ophelia Thinks Harder

The Lord Lackbeards Proudly Present…

Hamlet And Ophelia Thinks Harder

An all female cast explores a double-Bill of Shakespeare’s infamous characters!

HAMLET by William Shakespeare
OPHELIA THINKS HARDER by Jean Betts and William Shakespeare

21, 25-28 May, The Boat Café

2-4 June, Whitireia Performance Centre
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“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue” – Hamlet

All female company, The Lord Lackbeards, is delighted to bring a double-Bill production of Hamlet and Ophelia Thinks Harder to Wellington – the last stop in an Escape from the Nunnery tour that took them to six centres, including a sold-out season at the Pop-Up Globe in Auckland.

In a reversal, or photo negative, of productions that use the historically accurate convention of only male actors, The Lord Lackbeards present all their productions with an all female cast. Continuing the conversation between past and present, this production of Hamlet by William Shakespeare combines an Elizabethan approach to staging and text with modern physical theatre techniques and costuming.

“How come I turned into a woman? Can’t I just stay a person?” – Ophelia

Created 400 years after Shakespeare's death, Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts (and William Shakespeare) is a vibrantly subversive, irreverent and feminist interpretation of his famous work.

Based on Hamlet, but with all the good lines reassigned, Ophelia Thinks Harder looks at this illustrious play from Ophelia’s point of view. Betts questions what it means to be a woman at Elsinore - or anywhere else. Pushed and pulled by all the men (and women) in her life, Ophelia has to figure out her own path.

Don’t miss this delightful double-Bill featuring Shakespeare’s most infamous characters – original, re-imagined and lacking beards!

NB: Saturday 21 May, both plays will be performed back-to-back at The Boat Café, and 9pm Thursday 26 May after the performance of Ophelia Thinks Harder – the set of Hamlet based works will be complete, with a special reading of Tom Stoppard’s, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead for koha.

The Boat Café, 139A Oriental Parade, Wellington
Saturday 21 May, 4pm – Hamlet / 7.30pm – Ophelia Thinks Harder

http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/hamlet-and-ophelia-back-to-back/wellington

Wednesday 25 May 7pm – Hamlet

Thursday 26 May, 7pm – Ophelia Thinks Harder / 9pm Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (reading only – KOHA)

Friday 27 May, 7pm – Hamlet

Saturday 28 May, 7pm – Ophelia Thinks Harder

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

BOAT CAFÉ - http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/hamlet/wellington

Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and William Shakespeare

BOAT CAFÉ - http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/ophelia-thinks-harder/wellington

Whitireia Performance Centre, 25-27 Vivian Street, Wellington
Thursday 2 June, 7.30pm – Hamlet

Friday 3 June, 7.30pm – Ophelia Thinks Harder

Saturday 4 June, 7.30pm – Hamlet

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

WHITIREIA - http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/hamlet2/wellington

Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and William Shakespeare
WHITIREIA - http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/ophelia-thinks-harder2/wellington

TICKETS: $20 / 15

(Saturday 21 May Hamlet / Ophelia back-to-back $30 / $20)

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