I Hate Hamlet Analysis

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I Hate Hamlet was a play being presented at the HCC Performing Arts Building by the Theater Program about an actor named Andrew who is cast as the lead role for the play Hamlet; who then struggles on whether or not to accept the part and take up the challenge. The play is divided into two acts and three scenes. Act one begins in New York City in the nineteen nineties, as the main character Andrew moves into his new apartment and his realtor presents him the apartment. Felicia, the realtor then explains that the house's previous owner was another actor named Andrew, who also played in the lead role in Hamlet. He later explains to everybody, including his wife, Dierdre, how he has been cast for the role and that he is planning on rejecting the

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