By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Tal Aviezer

Red Monkey Theater Group and M&M Performing Arts Company presented Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy in a fast-paced adaptation with intimate staging. The energetic, scaled-down production aimed to remove as many barriers as possible between the Bard’s words and the audience. One of the reasons we come to the theater is to recognize ourselves, and Hamlet is an enduring character because people from all walks of life, of all ages and nationalities, have recognized their essential humanity in him. Shakespeare’s language is electrifying because he manages somehow to articulate thoughts that we all recognize as truth, but that we ourselves have never been able to express. We hope our production will convey that sense of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual homecoming to our audience.

HAMLET was performed in the Grand Picture Gallery of Lyndhurst Mansion. For six performances from February 17 through March 4, 2018 and two performances in Cahill Theater at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale,  Saturday, March 10 & 11, 2018. It also toured Westchester in the 2018 M&M Library Series and two special performances of Hamlet will were staged on April 28 and 29 at the Monsignor Scanlan High School and Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, both in the Bronx.

The cast of HAMLET was: Tal Aviezer, Kate Berg, Germainne LeBron, Nick Leshi, Melinda O’Brien, Lawrence J. Reina, Gregg Shults, Mikel Von Brodbeck and was directed by Tal Aviezer with stage management by Rachel Tamarin.