{"id":704,"date":"2026-05-12T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:35:17","slug":"from-taylor-swift-to-the-oscars-400-year-old-hamlet-flourishes-in-the-age-of-tiktok-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"From Taylor Swift to the Oscars, 400-year-old \u2018Hamlet\u2019 flourishes in the age of TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> | He\u2019s on screen, onstage, on tour, online and in song. \u201cHamlet\u201d \u2014 William Shakespeare\u2019s masterpiece about a moody Danish prince \u2014 seems to be having a moment.<\/p>\n<p>A National Theatre production has landed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starring Hiran Abeysekera. There\u2019s a movie version set in London\u2019s South Asian community starring Riz Ahmed. Anthony Hopkins, at 88, is delighting fans on TikTok with some of Prince Hamlet\u2019s \u201cTo be, or not to be\u201d soliloquy. The movie \u201cHamnet\u201d \u2014 the fictionalized story of loss that inspired the creation of \u201cHamlet\u201d \u2014 earned Jessie Buckley an Oscar. Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s Hamlet\u2019s ex \u2014 went to No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart. Eddie Izzard is taking her one-person production of the play on a worldwide tour.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred years on, \u201cHamlet\u201d \u2014 whose seemingly quite modern antihero is endlessly mulling over what to do after his uncle murdered his father and married his mother \u2014 is still giving.<\/p>\n<p>Want even more? There\u2019s even a \u201cHamnet\u201d play, adapted from Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s original novel, and the Royal Shakespeare Company is taking it on a U.K. tour. Shakespeare &amp; Company will stage a \u201cHamlet\u201d this August in the Berkshires. There\u2019s a Canadian production of \u201cHamlet, Sweet Prince,\u201d using a queer, contemporary lens. The Acting Company in New York will have a modern-verse version led by a woman, and the Peruvian theater company Teatro La Plaza recently presented a version off-Broadway starring eight Spanish-speaking actors with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s Jeffrey R. Wilson, a Shakespeare scholar, says \u201cHamlet\u201d is perfect for our era, when the crush of bad news has triggered constant, existential check-ins, like: \u201cHey, how\u2019s everyone hanging in there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are exhausted from the onslaught of awfulness in the world,\u201d he says, \u201cand \u2018Hamlet\u2019 gives audiences both permission to \u2018go there\u2019 to explore those emotions and a tool kit of ideas to help us process angst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A neurodiverse \u2018Hamlet\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plethora of works are markedly vibrant and fresh, from the Hamlet in Brooklyn who wears a beanie to the one who enjoys Bollywood-style dances in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat plays survive not because they remain untouched, but because they can continue to be transformed,\u201d says director and playwright Chela De Ferrari, from Teatro La Plaza, whose neurodiverse \u201cHamlet\u201d is a visceral and urgent call from those often excluded from cultural narratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with actors with Down syndrome and cognitive disabilities brought me back to something essential in \u2018Hamlet\u2019: that beneath its philosophical brilliance there is an exposed human being asking, in one way or another, how to exist in a world that keeps misreading him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the show\u2019s most potent moments, an actor attempts to imitate Laurence Olivier\u2019s delivery of Hamlet\u2019s \u201cTo be, or not to be\u201d soliloquy with an image of the famous actor projected on a screen. It takes on a new urgency when spoken by someone whose very right to be in public or artistic spaces is often questioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to imagine a kind of continuity between our actors and all the great actors who have carried the play before. I believe Shakespeare lives in all of them,\u201d says De Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shakespeare in a BMW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On school trips to see Shakespeare plays, filmmaker Aneil Karia always felt like they were an arm\u2019s length away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I was primarily watching an intellectual experience unfold and I had to use my brain to keep up with the plot and the language and everything like that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed up with Ahmed and screenwriter Michael Lesslie for a stripped-down, modern-day retelling of \u201cHamlet\u201d that leans into the title character\u2019s unease at being complicit in a corrupt business system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat feels so pertinent to the moment we\u2019re in politically and everything. It feels like the question a lot of people are asking,\u201d says Karia. \u201cIt feels like these stories are actually a conversation through time itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamlet here parties at a neon-drenched nightclub and delivers his soliloquy while hurtling down rain-slicked London streets in a BMW, taking his hands off the wheel as a truck approaches head-on. To be, or not to be, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best best-case scenario here is that it\u2019s opening up Shakespeare to audiences who didn\u2019t think it was for them, or who struggled with it previously,\u201d says Karia, whose film starts streaming Tuesday. \u201cThis is a big call, but I feel like Shakespeare would approve. I feel his whole thing was like, \u2018Take this stuff and do your thing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A more clownish prince<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHamlet\u201d in Brooklyn leans into the humor of the play for one good reason: The guy playing Hamlet is naturally funny.<\/p>\n<p>Abeysekera is manic and mischievous as he pulls out the play\u2019s physical humor, addressing the audience directly in his soliloquies, sometimes sitting at the edge of the stage and making eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very self-aware play. It sort of really knows that it\u2019s a play, if that makes any kind of sense,\u201d says director Robert Hastie. \u201cHamlet knows he\u2019s in a play called \u2018Hamlet,\u2019 like Deadpool knows he is in a film called \u2018Deadpool.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abeysekera tackles his \u201cTo be, or not to be\u201d speech as an errant thought, a wisp of an idea, instead of the traditional foot-planted, actor-y, big-thing-coming approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than thinking, \u2018Oh, here\u2019s the big speech coming up and that\u2019s freaking me out,\u2019 I started thinking, \u2018It\u2019s such a thought that most of us kind of have,&#8217;\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes, in front of the mirror, we just see ourselves and go, \u2018Oof. Today\u2019s a tough day.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hastie believes \u201cHamlet\u201d is one of those works that reveals something new all the time. Grounded in the human condition, it speaks fresh things to each audience and we discover new things that have always been there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons I think why we\u2019re still talking about Shakespeare, and this play in particular, is that whenever those words fuse with a new actor or a new group of actors, it becomes a different play,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s a good working definition of a classic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>An extremely online bard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Cardile is doing her best to keep the 400-year-old playwright alive in the TikTok era. She and her three-person troupe Mad Spirits Theatre Company are on virtually every social media platform spreading the word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to bring Shakespeare to a modern audience and make it understandable,\u201d Cardile says. \u201cWe want people to feel more comfortable with Shakespeare and not think that it\u2019s old English and such a hard thing to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They post live readings and commentary of the plays on YouTube but it\u2019s on Instagram and TikTok where the true coolness starts. They find trending audio snippets \u2014 of everything from dialogue on \u201cThe Office\u201d to a Lady Gaga song \u2014 and assign a Shakespeare character to say them.<\/p>\n<p>So Kitty Forman\u2019s popular line \u201cI may have been a little irrational today\u201d from \u201cThat \u201970s Show\u201d is lipsynced by an actor playing Ophelia. A section of dialogue between Scar and Simba from \u201cThe Lion King\u201d is put in the mouths of actors playing Claudius and Hamlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re like, \u2018Hey, wouldn\u2019t it be funny if we took these silly trending sounds that everybody\u2019s doing and what if we put them to Shakespeare characters?&#8217;\u201d says Cardile. \u201cThis has ended up being so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=698\">Money Happens: Expert tips for managing medical debt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=700\">The Cannes Film Festival is about to begin. Here are the key films making their debut<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=702\">Olivia and Liam top the list of most popular US baby names for the seventh year running<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK | He\u2019s on screen, onstage, on tour, online and in song. \u201cHamlet\u201d \u2014 William Shakespeare\u2019s masterpiece about a moody Danish prince \u2014 seems to be having a moment. A National Theatre production has landed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starring Hiran Abeysekera. 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