“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue”

In a reversal, or photo negative, of productions that use the historically accurate convention of only male actors, The Lord Lackbeards present a Hamlet with an all female cast. Continuing the conversation between past and present, this production combines an Elizabethan approach to staging and text with modern physical theatre techniques and costuming. 

Based on Hamlet, but with all the good lines reassigned, Ophelia Thinks Harder looks at the famous play from Ophelia’s point of view. Betts questions what it means to be a woman at Elsinore - or anywhere else. Pushed and pulled by all the men (and women) in her life, Ophelia has to figure out her own path.

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