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the next to the last hamlet on the left was performed at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, 39 W 19th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC at 7:00 pm. Tues, Thurs & Fri: Feb 5 & 7 & 8; 12 & 14 & 15, 2008 Performers: Quentin McCuiston (Hamlet), Annalisa Chamberin (Ophelia), Connie Rotunda (Gertrude), Kyle Quiring (Laertes); the Angels of Death Ashley Pearse, Sarah Preddy, and Sean Roschman; CSI investigators: David DelRio, Richard Omar, Skylar Rote, Aaron Scotti; and, musicians Megan MacDonald and Lance Camarillo. The production weaves together live music, a modern day Shakespearean drama, and a CSI crime scene investigation.
In this new adaptation, scenes from the classic play spring to life during CSI evidence gathering and autopsies. music blends classic rock with a live band performing traditional folk music while the character of Death plays the violin; movement pieces include Hamlet's dead body dance with Ophelia dripping wet from her watery suicide, the UberAngel's Dance of Death, a wrestling match that replaces the traditional finale, and the CSI investigators' waltz with the dead; video projections include a scrapbook of early childhood family films & photos, CNN reports live from Denmark, a video suicide note, and the live-action Hamlet surveillance cam. 
design elements weave together like a stream of consciousness last visions before death medley, and include: an Ophelia look-alike winged angel marionette wielded by an Angel of Death, Ophelia's paper dress seamed together from Hamlet's love letters and drawings, and a memorial wall of poems and art from the sketchbooks of Hamlet.
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PHOTOS BY DouglasGorenstein.com
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