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.
And when Hamlet finally stabs the arras, he’s not sure if he’s killed a man or a metaphor. The skull in the graveyard has a Bluetooth earpiece still attached. hamlet -2009-
The players arrive via van, their Hecuba speech lit by iPhone flash. “To be or not to be” is whispered into a payphone receiver, the line dead except for the buzz of 21st-century dread. This is Hamlet for the year of swine