![]() “They’re kindred spirits, both kind of on the outskirts,” Lynch said. In his role as the courtier Polonius, Mitchell does warn his daughter, Ophelia, to disassociate herself from the prince.Īlas for that character, played by Deirdre Lynch, she really loves Hamlet - and she’s doomed. “If I had a daughter, I wouldn’t want her to be involved with him,” Walter Mitchell of Bear Creek Village said, joking as if he were talking about Colin in real life. He wishes he could be (his friend) Horatio.” He doesn’t like being wealthy and doesn’t like the responsibility of one day being king. He’s definitely depressed, Colin said, and probably would be even if his father hadn’t died at his uncle’s hand. That could be enough to drive a sensitive young man mad. Hamlet refers to his closest family members that way because, as the ghost of his father has revealed to him, his uncle murdered his father and shortly thereafter married Hamlet’s mother. Could they be spies sent by the queen his aunt/mother and the king his uncle/father? ![]() “It adds some sexual tension that you wouldn’t have if Guildenstern was a man,” said Emily Thomas, whose face gets a tender caress from the prince as he demands to know why she and his other old pal, Rosenkrantz, have suddenly arrived. “I love it.”Įnthusiasm has been building as well among the rest of the cast, who point with delight to the casting of the character Guildenstern as a woman who may be Hamlet’s old girlfriend. So much the better, Colin said of the non-traditional elements.
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