I Hate Hamlet

By Paul Rudnick

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Theater

Company:
Hong Kong Players

Venue:
Fringe Club

Date and Time:
March 1-4, 7.30pm

Ticket Price:
290-225

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Central

Ticketing By: Art Mate

Age Limitation: 10

Andrew Rally seems to have it all: instant celebrity from his starring role in a hit TV series; a beautiful girlfriend; a devoted agent; the perfect New York apartment; and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. However, all is not well in paradise. Andrew has a feeling his fame owes more to luck than to talent plus his series has been canceled; his girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction; and he has no desire to play Hamlet. 

Enter the ghost of classic actor John Barrymore, dressed in high Shakespearean garb and determined to help Andrew fulfill his actor's destiny and play the role every actor wants to play. Barrymore proves to be very convincing (challenging Andrew to a sword fight in the middle of the New York loft), and Andrew decides to play Hamlet. But when his Hollywood producer friend Gary shows up offering Andrew a new role in a television pilot, with a potentially large salary and fame, Andrew is forced to choose between Shakespeare and television.

Playwright Paul Rudnick had the idea for this award-winning comedy when he lived in John Barrymore’s apartment in New York in the late 1980s.