Why Not Theatre

How Deaf storytelling breathed new life into Hamlet’s story

By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor   Time to break the fourth wall and preface this by admitting that I am still absolutely, completely destroyed by the production I just witnessed. PuSh Festival really did a number on me by hosting Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet, a bilingual production of Shakespeare’s magnum opus that integrates English and American Sign Language (ASL) from start to finish.   Overall, it’s the Hamlet you know and love with a killer set and some gender-bent casting (you might not think that a man playing Ophelia could work, but that’s because you haven’t had your heart…

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