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Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park: HAMLET

Prince Hamlet has come home from college to Elsinore to bury his father and then attend his mother Gertrude's wedding to his Uncle Claudius. Hamlet is visited by his dead fathers ghost and learns his father was murdered by is uncle and demands Hamlet seek revenge for his death. Hamlet goes about this by pretending to have gone crazy, breaks off his relationship with his girlfriend, Ophelia, and plots to kill Claudius.

Feeling threatened by Hamlet's behavior, Claudius plots to have him killed by employing two of Hamlets schoolmates, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, as escorts to his execution in England. Outwitted, Hamlet returns to Elsinore to seek his revenge.

Sensitivity Warning: This play deals with the difficult subjects of suicide and feelings of self-harm.

Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park aims to provide an inspiring and educational live theater experience for our audience through intensive preparation and high quality performance, and broaden horizons and enrich the lives of local residents through a free classical outdoor theater performance. Our casts are made up of multi-ethnic actors of various backgrounds and experience levels. Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park also aims to provide professional performance opportunities to Bay Area actors of color, various gender identity, and women through non-traditional casting. We want our productions to reflect the community in which they are performed and help our audience connect to classical theater with exciting contemporary staging. We present a bare-bones production, concentrating on the actors performances and honest storytelling, with minimal set and modern dress.

We believe the arts are an important part of the fabric of a community and we want to do our part to ensure a thriving arts environment and help raise the value of the arts as a public benefit.