Cast - minimum 9 (4m 5w) to 30-odd
ISBN 0 9583392 5
Price $22.50

Ophelia Thinks Harder
Jean Betts


Reviewers' comments include:-
Hamlet is doctored with a mightly sharp blade to make this a fantastic farce to rival the best of Shakespeare's. This play has become a New Zealand classic, perfomed everywhere and a fixture on school and university curricula. History is rewritten, speeches reworked and best of all, the best lines go to an incredibly hard-thinking Ophelia. A passionate exploration of female myth and reality; patriarchy, marriage, the cult of the virgin - all get a right going-over. Energy, scope, intellectual challenge and triumphant theatricality. Perfect play pillaging.