Written by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Margo Whitcomb

Middlebury Acting Company
Spring 2026

While Hamlet schemes, other plots emerge in different rooms in the castle. This riveting addition to playwright Lauren Gunderson’s canon invites us into the interior lives of Ophelia, her handmaid Anna, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark. How do these women actually cope with the prince’s spiral into tyranny and madness? How might they “invent a way out” and strategize in world that conspires to kill them all? A thrilling and subversive reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Gunderson gives voice to the iconic yet mysterious Ophelia.