I Hate Hamlet from Bay Area Stage Productions
The Fetterly Playhouse (467 Sonoma Boulevard Vallejo, CA 94590)
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The last date listed for I Hate Hamlet was Sunday July 25, 2010 / 4:00pm.
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Unfortunately the address on the print out I pulled to hand to the box office said 467 Sonoma, Vallejo, CA. Turned out it was 3467 Sonoma and is called The Fetterly Gallery, not Playhouse and it must be somewhere inside a large shopping area, though we were still trying to find it at 4:10 pm and would have been late even if we had found it. Thus what we looked forward to as it was close to home, a new venue and one we might visit often and reasonably priced, turned out to cost $14 for tickets, $5 for bridge toll and another $3 for cell phone charges trying to locate the address. The phone # given for the gallery was not answered and the message said no one was about so to leave a message which didn't help much.Written on Jul 27 2010
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- “Fast-mouthed and funny... It has the old fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretentions and sentimentality without morals.” --Village Voice
Description
Bay Area Stage Productions is pleased to bring you I Hate Hamlet, a classic family comedy requiring no prior knowledge of Shakespeare. Written by Paul Rudnick and first produced on Broadway in 1991, I Hate Hamlet was nominated for both Tony and Drama Desk Awards and is hailed by critics as one of the most consistently funny comedic plays of all time.
The plot of the play revolves around Andrew Rally, a television actor whose series has just been canceled. Andrew moves to New York to perform the title role in Hamlet - a role he doesn't like or want to play - but is, for obvious reasons, performing only at the urging of his 29-year-old virginal girlfriend, Deirdre. A flaky real estate agent claiming to have psychic powers talks Andrew into renting an apartment that once belonged to the (long-dead) iconic star of stage and screen, and one of the most acclaimed Hamlets of his generation, John Barrymore. Needless to say, an impromptu séance seems to vent forth the ghost of John Barrymore himself, who comes to make sure that Andrew does perform the role of Hamlet.
There is, of course, a little bit more to it than that, and the plot also concerns Andrew's eccentric (and chain-smoking) agent; his determinedly virginal girlfriend; and an ultra-California producer type who wants to see Andrew take the easy television and run instead of striving for 'art' in New York. Add in swordplay, Barrymore's infamous lechery, and a host of complications and the result is a swash-buckling funfest for the entire family!
About the Ticket Supplier: Bay Area Stage Productions
Bay Area Stage Productions is comprised of non-professional actors, directors and technical experts from the Bay Area of Northern California. Under the artistic directorship of Jeff Lowe, it aims to provide local performing talent with further opportunity to develop and practice their craft and to provide audiences theatrical exposure to the work of notable writers that they might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience.