"So...once more... tell me about this Ghost." That's how the legendary story begins. But ghosts are tricky things. Especially in a world of madness, murder, and mayhem. A rich entitled Prince goes on a ferocious rampage that will lead to a massacre in the living room. Is he a tragic hero as we've often been told? Or a royal blooded serial killer? In this new adaptation we will step into a Shakespearian noir through a forensic investigation of the ultimate crimes of passion.
"...Director Starbuck gleefully extends this hall of mirrors to include the audience with fourth wall-shattering moments. Block's Hamlet addresses his "To be or not to be" soliloquy directly to us from one of the theater aisles, even as Ophelia (Ana Nicolle Chavez) sits onstage and Claudius and Polonius (Matt Foyer) presumably eavesdrop from behind one of the background flats in Yuki Izumihara's multi-layered set design. So who is Hamlet really performing the speech for'"