“Man delights not me.”
—HAMLET, 2.2
When critics and artists talk about Hamlet, they frequently discuss its rich exploration of the human condition; they find these characters’ confrontation with grief and struggle with life to be relatable, even universal. When we take a step back, however, the overwhelming masculinity of the play comes into focus. Most frequently performed with only two female actors (Gertrude and Ophelia), traditional Hamlets leave a large swath of the human condition unexamined.
Shakespeare Repertory Project
HAMLET
“Women, in the West at least, have access to perform in any and every field of public endeavor, in theory at least. Could we not play the male leaders in our national playwright’s canon? […] We are continually broadening the definition of what a man or woman is, so couldn’t we be holding Shakespeare’s mirror up to the nature of a more current world?” —HARRIET WALTER, BRUTUS AND OTHER HEROINES By casting the play entirely with female and non-binary actors, this production seeks to explore questions of how patriarchy and the pressure of the masculine ideal have a hold on the power, privilege, and suffering that rightly belongs to everyone in this world. What do we learn when the space between actor and character is pried open? How does the human condition expand when more bodies are included? Can we see how patriarchy and the arbitrary nature of gender expectations harm us all? MARCH 6 AT 4PM & 8PM MARCH 7 AT 4PM ISEMAN THEATER, 1156 CHAPEL STREET —REBECCA ADELSHEIM, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
2019–20 STUDIO SERIES
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Costume Designer
April M. Hickman Lighting Designer
Graham Zellers Sound Designer
Emily Duncan Wilson Production Dramaturg
Rebecca Adelsheim Technical Director
Tatsuya “Tito” Ito Stage Managers
Brandon Lovejoy Edmond O’Neal
Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer
Hamlet is performed without an intermission.
Pre-Production Dramaturg
Special Thanks
Callie Fosburgh
Assistant Stage Manager
Bekah Brown
By William Shakespeare Directed by Maeli Goren
Sarah Karl
Elsinore, Denmark
Evdoxia Ragkou
HAMLET Scenic Designer
Setting
Lighting Design Advisor
Emma Deane
PRESENTS
Creative Team
Artistic Staff
Production Staff Associate Safety Advisors
Cast
in alphabetical order Gertrude
Doireann Mac Mahon Hamlet
J. Aiden Martínez Polonius/The Ghost
Maia Mihanovich Ophelia
Ciara Monique Laertes/First Player
Cam Camden Laurie Ortega-Murphy Production Manager
Katie Byron
Assistant Technical Director
Martin Montaner V. Nathan Angrick Run Crew
Kitty Cassetti Alex Keegan Jiahao Qiu Dario Ladani Sanchez
Administration
Claudius
Associate Managing Director
Rosencrantz/Priest/Player King
Nefesh Cordero Pino
Guildenstern/Gravedigger/Player Queen
Madeline Seidman Horatio
Maal Imani West
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Department from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Caitlin Volz
Assistant Managing Director
Madeline Carey
Management Assistants
Samanta Yunuen Cubias Jason Gray Matthew Sonnenfeld House Manager
Lucia Bacqué
Supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
Master Electrician
Reed Northrup Eli Pauley
Aisling Galvin, Elizabeth Hibbard, Caroline Shaw
Yale School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
Yale University acknowledges that indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Costume Designer
April M. Hickman Lighting Designer
Graham Zellers Sound Designer
Emily Duncan Wilson Production Dramaturg
Rebecca Adelsheim Technical Director
Tatsuya “Tito” Ito Stage Managers
Brandon Lovejoy Edmond O’Neal
Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer
Hamlet is performed without an intermission.
Pre-Production Dramaturg
Special Thanks
Callie Fosburgh
Assistant Stage Manager
Bekah Brown
By William Shakespeare Directed by Maeli Goren
Sarah Karl
Elsinore, Denmark
Evdoxia Ragkou
HAMLET Scenic Designer
Setting
Lighting Design Advisor
Emma Deane
PRESENTS
Creative Team
Artistic Staff
Production Staff Associate Safety Advisors
Cast
in alphabetical order Gertrude
Doireann Mac Mahon Hamlet
J. Aiden Martínez Polonius/The Ghost
Maia Mihanovich Ophelia
Ciara Monique Laertes/First Player
Cam Camden Laurie Ortega-Murphy Production Manager
Katie Byron
Assistant Technical Director
Martin Montaner V. Nathan Angrick Run Crew
Kitty Cassetti Alex Keegan Jiahao Qiu Dario Ladani Sanchez
Administration
Claudius
Associate Managing Director
Rosencrantz/Priest/Player King
Nefesh Cordero Pino
Guildenstern/Gravedigger/Player Queen
Madeline Seidman Horatio
Maal Imani West
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Department from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Caitlin Volz
Assistant Managing Director
Madeline Carey
Management Assistants
Samanta Yunuen Cubias Jason Gray Matthew Sonnenfeld House Manager
Lucia Bacqué
Supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
Master Electrician
Reed Northrup Eli Pauley
Aisling Galvin, Elizabeth Hibbard, Caroline Shaw
Yale School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
Yale University acknowledges that indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples
“Man delights not me.”
—HAMLET, 2.2
When critics and artists talk about Hamlet, they frequently discuss its rich exploration of the human condition; they find these characters’ confrontation with grief and struggle with life to be relatable, even universal. When we take a step back, however, the overwhelming masculinity of the play comes into focus. Most frequently performed with only two female actors (Gertrude and Ophelia), traditional Hamlets leave a large swath of the human condition unexamined.
Shakespeare Repertory Project
HAMLET
“Women, in the West at least, have access to perform in any and every field of public endeavor, in theory at least. Could we not play the male leaders in our national playwright’s canon? […] We are continually broadening the definition of what a man or woman is, so couldn’t we be holding Shakespeare’s mirror up to the nature of a more current world?” —HARRIET WALTER, BRUTUS AND OTHER HEROINES By casting the play entirely with female and non-binary actors, this production seeks to explore questions of how patriarchy and the pressure of the masculine ideal have a hold on the power, privilege, and suffering that rightly belongs to everyone in this world. What do we learn when the space between actor and character is pried open? How does the human condition expand when more bodies are included? Can we see how patriarchy and the arbitrary nature of gender expectations harm us all? MARCH 6 AT 4PM & 8PM MARCH 7 AT 4PM ISEMAN THEATER, 1156 CHAPEL STREET —REBECCA ADELSHEIM, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
2019–20 STUDIO SERIES