Ophelia thinks harder

Ophelia Thinks Harder was written by Jean Betts and produced by Carol Dee. Written originally for suffrage year Ophelia Thinks Harder has become one of NZ's more successful plays. In this play Hamlet becomes a strutting irrelevance epitomising the male ego at its worst. Instead it is Ophelia who is centre stage and she gets all the big speeches. The play works best for those who know Hamlet but also works in its own right as gloriously funny romp. This production has heightened the post-modernist approach to the play by the use of much anachronistic modern music together with medieval music. CAST: Nicola Murphy as Ophelia; Stephen Lovatt as Hamlet; Stephen Bain as Horatio; Jean Betts as The maid; Barry Empson as Polonius; cameron Rhodes as Laertes; Kate Harcourt as The Queen; Madeline McNamara as Saint Joan; Nudger alias Carmel McGlone as Rosencrantz; Digger alias Lorae Parry as Guildenstern; Bernard Kearns, John Wraight, Steve Danby and Angus Lithow as The
Players. SEE ACC# Prelim/3 FILE FOR FURTHER DETAILS.