"Why Hamlet?"

We asked our Hamlet/Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead actors "What brings you to The Hamlet Project? What themes do you find most compelling, what characters most intriguing, what actions most worth pursuing?"
​Here's what they told us:

• What we want/should want/think we want
• Philosophy
• Ophelia
• Find beautiful words to love
• Horatio
• Dig into to monologue work
• As a HS Senior, I relate to R&G – life is uncertain, let's party.....but also, what's next?
• Unreliable narrator
• New relationship with self
• Witty wordplay
• Laertes-Hamlet relationship.
• I JUST WANT A ROLE
• Be in someone else's shoes
• Relate to not understanding what's going on
• As a Freshman – trying to navigate which relationships are important
• Let's get rid of “Angsty Hamlet”
• Insanity
• Surrealism
• Theater, and what it's about

How about you? What are your "access points" into the story of Hamlet? What draws you in... or what keeps you out? What themes/characters/actions resonate for you? Answer in the comments: