Hamlet -2009- May 2026

Here’s a short interpretive piece inspired by Hamlet (with a focus on a 2009 production context — perhaps the RSC’s David Tennant/Patrick Stewart version or another contemporary staging):

In 2009, the nunnery scene is shot like a reality TV fight. Ophelia’s flowers are dropped in a petrol station parking lot. Polonius is a career politician checking emails behind a tapestry. Claudius doesn’t pray — he delivers a press conference. hamlet -2009-

This is Hamlet for the year of swine flu, Twitter, and two wars. Denmark is a surveillance state, rotten not with treason but with apathy, live feeds, and solipsism. Here’s a short interpretive piece inspired by Hamlet