Alt-Hamlet
Closed 1h 45m
Alt-Hamlet
77%
77%
(6 Ratings)
Positive
66%
Mixed
17%
Negative
17%
Members say
Clever, Entertaining, Confusing, Ambitious, Great acting

About the Show

A mother's ghost urges daughters to uncover their father's guilt in her murder in this new comedy.

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Critic Reviews (2)

TheaterScene.net
September 15th, 2023

Willett uses "Hamlet" as the vehicle for the story since it was a play centered on the Elizabethan view of inheritance as a right. Her play centers on a woman’s right to control her body. She also uses pregnancy and "morning-after" and "abortion" pills as elements in the story. While the topics dealt with are important, this production does not effectively deliver on those topics, not for want of trying, but because of the venue and some directorial choices. It reads better than it plays.
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New York Theater
September 14th, 2023

an in-your-face, vaudeville-infused dark comedy billed as “a post-Roe satire,” which is meant to be pointed, but winds up confusing….By the end of this overlong, overstuffed play, despite some barbed wit and a game and lively cast wrapped in some vivid costumes, the confusion has only grown.
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