Dark Hamlet 3-28-2021
The Pitt-Greensburg Theatre Company presented "Dark Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, edited and directed by Dr. Stephen A. Schrum. The performance began with the "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy, and continued on as the hallucination of a morphine user.
This collage performance on Zoom lasted just under one hour, and features current students, alumni, and a special guest alum of Dr. Schrum's productions.
“This adaptation [was not] for the Shakespeare purists,” warns Schrum. “Much of the text will be missing, only about one-sixth will remain, and that will not be in the usual order. But what the audience saw and heard can be, I think, illuminating for those curious about Hamlet, the play and the character.”
The program is available at: http://musofyr.com/DH/DHProgram.pdf.
Recorded by Zoom for Panopto, the video presentation lacks the setup of the original performance. Read more at https://musofyr.org/plays-2/.