By Pavel Kohout
Robert O'Reilly, Robert
Ackerman, Sharon Spelvin, David Nichols, Barbara Beckley,
Alma Carey, Dee Croxton, Albert Lord, Amy Pfeffer, John Larroquette, and
Stuart Lancaster
Director
Set
Lighting
Costumes
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Terrence Shank
Gene Mazzanti
Terrence Shank
Victoria de Kay
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CAST (in order of appearance):
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Anton
Igatyevich Kerzhentev
also Hamlet
Professor Drembitsky
First Actor
also Alexey Konstantinovich
Savelyov,
Prosecuting Attorney, Polonius,
and Hamlet II
First Actress
also Tatiana Nikolayevna
and Gertrude II
Second Actor
also Ignat Kerzhentzev,
Count
Byelitsky, Kurganov, Polonius
II, etc.
Second Actress
also Mistress, Duchess de
Cliche Turomel,
Gertrude I, Prologue, and
others
Third Actor
also Cashier, Waiter, Gypsy,
Bernardo, and others
Third Actress
also Irina Pavlovna Kurganova,
Countess
Byelitskaya, Marya Vassilyevna,
etc.
Fourth Actor
also Dean, Conductor, Claudius,
etc.
Fourth Actress
also Katya, Flower Vendor,
etc.
Fifth Actress
also Mistress, Gypsy Roma,
etc.
Attendants
Musicians |
John Larroquette
Stuart Lancaster
Robert Ackerman
Barbara Beckley
Albert Lord
Dee Croxton
David Nichols
Sharon Berryhill
Robert O’Reilly
Amy Feffer
Alma Carey
Michael Catlin
Donald Petrie
Arnie Shamblin
Thomas Van Buren
Erika Croxton
Todd Nielsen
David Nichols
Terrence Shank
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SYNOPSIS
The scene is St.
Petersburg, Russia in the year 1900. A young Russian actor has gone mad
in the part of Hamlet, murdering the actor playing Polonius, and has been
confined to the St. Elizabeth Institute for Nervous Disorders. In an effort
to determine whether the actor killed because he was insane or is feigning
insanity because he was killed, his doctor grants him permission to act
out a personal psychodrama to explain the events leading up to the murder.

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