About The Event
Imagine if Hamlet were a woman.
Princess Hamlet is a 20-year-old college student, fierce, restless, and filled with youthful angst.
She is an ardent fan of Japanese Manga and Anime, and a dedicated practitioner of martial arts.
When she receives devastating news from home, she returns to find her mother, the reigning Queen, murdered, and her aunt now married to her father.
Her mother’s ghostly vision urges her not to seek revenge but to complete her education and protect herself from future danger. For the grieving, enraged young woman, this plea for restraint becomes unbearable.
If revenge is a form of closure for trauma, is that closure available to every gender, or only to men?
From this point, the narrative diverges from Shakespeare’s original, subverting its patriarchal gaze.
Blending physical theatre, martial arts, and pop-cultural imagery, this powerful production dismantles the patriarchal gaze of the classic tragedy, confronting toxic masculinity, inherited power, and the emotional limits imposed on women.
