Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Programs in Theater and Music Theater, along with Princeton’s Department of English and Program in Humanistic Studies.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Run Time
110 minutes with no intermission.
Program Notes
Setting: Denmark, but also here
Time: Then, but also now
Content Warnings
This production depicts mental illness, including depression and anxiety, and portrays physical violence such as murder and suicide.
Special Notes
Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Cast
Hamlet: Julien Alam ’23*
Ophelia: Cassy James ’23*
Claudius: Juliette Carbonnier ’24*
Gertrude: Caitlin Durkin ’25*
Polonius/Gravedigger/Osric: Asher Muldoon ’23*
Horatio: Dominic Dominguez ’25
Laertes/First Player: Tanaka Ngwara ’24*
Ghost/Rosencrantz/Player King: Vincent Gerardi ’25*
Guildenstern/Player Queen: Jacquelynn Lin ’25*
Player Prologue/Messenger: Ava Kronman ’26*
Production Team
Director: Tamsen Wolff
Senior Thesis Proposer: Julien Alam ’23*
Lighting Designer: Le’Naya Wilkerson ’25*
Sound Designer: Chesney Snow
Stage Manager: Ava Kronman ’26*
Assistant Director: Anna Allport ’23*
Assistant Stage Manager: Matthew Weatherhead ’23*
Special consultants: Chesney Snow (Acting Coach) and Jacqueline Holloway (Fight Choreographer)
*denotes a certificate student in the Program in Theater
Faculty Advisor
Tamsen Wolff, English and Theater Advisor
Production Note
How can a text that is more than four hundred years old speak to the realities of today? In this shortened workshop performance of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a new generation brings their voices to this famed play to find what resonates most personally, and thus most universally. Under the direction of Associate Professor Tamsen Wolff, students participated in the spring course, cross-listed in English, Theater and Humanistic Studies, “Topics in Drama: Performing Hamlet,” using the tools of classical training to build their skills as actors and tell a story that is fundamentally about young people struggling with mental health, sexuality, and circumstances far beyond their control.
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information, see the websites of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater: Jane Cox
Producing Artistic Director, Theater And Music Theater Season: Elena Araoz
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