Hamlet
Friday, Feb. 6, at 5:30 p.m.
TIB Amphitheater in Islamorada Founders Park
Mile Marker 87
FREE Admission!

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet is a philosopher’s gold mine; but it’s also a ghost story, a comedy, a thriller, and a seven-murder tale of revenge. For 400 years, audiences of all ages (and both sexes) have been able to identify with this brilliant, troubled Prince as he copes with the loss of his father, his mother’s remarriage, and life’s biggest questions. Something is rotten in Denmark, and Hamlet, who seeks to uncover the source of the stench, struggles to discover what is real and what is illusion in his world turned upside down.

Praise for the American Shakespeare Center:

“This Shakespeare moves…we feel the inexorable sweep of the action but the poetry has a chance to breathe, too. And how wonderful to hear actors speak Shakespeare naturally. It is poetry come alive.” – The Boston Globe

“The actors were concentrated on the effects of passion that were written into the play…the audience was torn from their seats.” – Neuss Grevenbroicher Zeitung, Neuss, Germany

“All this would be of purely historical interest were it not for the high quality of the ASC’s fast-moving productions, which are authentic (no sets, no scene breaks) but not antiquarian.” – The Wall Street Journal

“Shamelessly entertaining.” – The Washington Post

“Blowing the cobwebs off Elizabethan drama.” – Bob Mondello, NPR and The City Paper ( Washington, DC)