Hamlet

Directed by Aaron Young Smith

Torrey Honors Theatre performs one of Shakespeare’s most enduring and powerful plays: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then ascending to the throne, taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.