Hamlet
by William Shakespeare  

Directed by David Gent
At St John’s Church, Bridgetown, Totnes
From Tuesday 17th April to Saturday 21st April 2007 nightly at 7:30pm.
The play ran for approximately 2½ hours

Hamlet is part of your life – even if you don’t realise it. The world’s most famous play is chock-full of phrases and expressions that most of us use on an almost daily basis.
‘Murder most foul’ – ‘More in sorrow than in anger’ – ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’ – ‘To thine own self be true’– ‘There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio…’– ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’– ‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in it’ – ‘To be or not to be…’ – ‘The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ – ay, there’s the rub! ’ –‘The lady doth protest too much’ – ‘Alas, poor Yorick…’– ‘Hoist with his own petard’– ‘I must be cruel only to be kind’– ‘The rest is silence’
That’s just a small selection. So just like Moliere’s M. Jourdain who had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, countless people across the modern world are unconsciously quoting Hamlet, and more, are absorbing much of the wisdom and philosophy. Truly a play for Today.