Prince Hamlet

Authors

Office of Arts + Cultural Programming
PEAK Performances at Montclair State University

Date(s) of Performance

9/22/2022-9/25/2022

Company

Why Not Theater

Directed by

Ravi Jain

Created by

William Shakespeare

Performers/Artists

Dawn Jani Birley, Miriam Fernandes, Jeff Ho, Eli Pauley, Barbara Gordon, Sturla Alvsvaag, Andrew Musselman, Dante Jemmott, Monice Peter

Summary

Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast – challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences. You’ve never experienced Hamlet like this before.

Disciplines

Theatre and Performance Studies

Files

Additional Information

More information about the production company 'Why Not Theater': https://whynot.theatre/