Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park presents THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

by William Shakespeare

FREE LIVE SHOWS IN THE PARK

NO SEATING PROVIDED - BRING A BLANKET OR LOW BEACH CHAIR TO SIT ON

Prince Hamlet has come home from college to Elsinore to bury his father and attend his mother Gertrude's wedding to his Uncle Claudius. Hamlet is visited by his dead father’s ghost and learns his father was murdered by his uncle and demands Hamlet seek revenge for his death. He goes about this by pretending to have gone crazy, breaks off his relationship with is girlfriend, Ophelia and plots to kill Claudius.

Feeling threatened by Hamlets behavior, Claudius plots to have him killed by employing two of Hamlet’s schoolmates, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, as escorts to his execution in England. Outwitted, Hamlet returns to Elsinore to seek his revenge.

• Sensitivity Warning: This show deals with the sensitive subjects of self-harm and suicide

Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park presents THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

by William Shakespeare

FREE LIVE SHOWS IN THE PARK

NO SEATING PROVIDED - BRING A BLANKET OR LOW BEACH CHAIR TO SIT ON

Prince Hamlet has come home from college to Elsinore to bury his father and attend his mother Gertrude's wedding to his Uncle Claudius. Hamlet is visited by his dead father’s ghost and learns his father was murdered by his uncle and demands Hamlet seek revenge for his death. He goes about this by pretending to have gone crazy, breaks off his relationship with is girlfriend, Ophelia and plots to kill Claudius.

Feeling threatened by Hamlets behavior, Claudius plots to have him killed by employing two of Hamlet’s schoolmates, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, as escorts to his execution in England. Outwitted, Hamlet returns to Elsinore to seek his revenge.

• Sensitivity Warning: This show deals with the sensitive subjects of self-harm and suicide