Tragedy
by William Shakespeare
August 22 – September 7, 2024
All shows at 7:30 pm
Thursday, August 22
Friday, August 23
Saturday, August 24
Wednesday, August 28 (value night)
Thursday, August 29
Friday, August 30
Saturday, August 31
Wednesday, September 4 (value night)
Thursday, September 5
Friday, September 6
Saturday, September 7
Runtime: 2 hours and 33 minutes, including a 15 minute intermission
In Shakespeare’s most enduring and influential play, the Danish prince Hamlet mourns his father’s death and his mother’s subsequent remarriage. When the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears and reveals that he was murdered, the prince feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and plots revenge on his uncle-turned-stepfather Claudius, who is now the king of Denmark. What follows is an epic and sweeping tragedy, as only the Bard can deliver.
2024 Season Program
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories and these works remain regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Zach Thomas Woods as Hamlet
Michael Chobanoff as Claudius
Beth Perry as Gertrude
Ariana Manghera as Ophelia
Josh Scheibe as Laertes
William Molitor as Polonius
Morgan Gates as Horatio
Stefan Kent as Rosencrantz
Del Lovejoy as Guildenstern
Jeff Sommerfeld as Ghost / Player King / Gravedigger
Sydney Faris as Player Queen / Osric
Tom Van Gilder as Barnardo / Player 3
Madison Van Allen as Marcellus / Player 4
Director: Dustin J. Martin
Stage Manager: Madison Penzkover
Technical Director: Scott Fudali
Fight and Intimacy Director: Christopher Elst
Costume Designer: Lisa Quinn
Lighting Designer: Ethan Schuelke
Sound Designer: David A. Robins
Properties Designer: Shawn Spellman
