I HATE HAMLET
Jan 15 - Feb 7, 2010
Fri/Sat  8 pm  Sun  3 pm

CALL 847.604.0275

$20 adults
$18 seniors (65+) & students w/ID
$12 kids 12 and younger

Performing at Prairie Lakes Theatre
515 E. Thacker Street
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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or call 847.391.5711 for directions.
THE PRODUCTION STAFF

Director/Sound Designer - Craig Gustafson
Assistant Director - Linda Andrews
Stage Manager - Helga Kennedy
Assistant Stage Manager - Daiva Paulis
Scenic Design/Master Carpenter - Tom French
Set Decoration - Katy Smith 
Set Construction - Peter Hillebrand,
Kathy Heinze, John Congram,
Frank Roberts, Ryan McCain, Rich Geiger
Costumer - Theresa Kerrigan
Lighting Design - Casey Diers
Lighting Execution - Aaron Andrews
Props - Helga Kennedy, Katy Smith
Fight Choreography - Scott Sumerak

Producer - Tom Walker
Executive Producer, Big Noise - Helga Kennedy
Artistic Director, Big Noise - Nancy Flaster
"As its title suggests, Paul Rudnick's 1991 play I Hate Hamlet deals with the question of just how relevant William Shakespeare's Hamlet is for modern audiences.

The play centers around a young actor who has just earned fame and fortune on a television doctor show and is apprehensive about returning to New York to play Hamlet in the prestigious Shakespeare in Central Park festival. To add to his insecurities, his realtor has rented him an apartment once inhabited by John Barrymore, who many consider to have given one of the greatest performances of Hamlet in the twentieth century. A séance brings the ghost of John Barrymore back to the apartment where he once lived. Barrymore offers guidance to the young actor, who has to decide between the easy money that he could make with a new television series and the confidence to be gained by facing the world's most difficult acting challenge.

Rudnick fills the play with laughs, as he lightly satirizes greedy realtors, vacuous Hollywood producers, pretentious but well-meaning actresses, and hard-drinking, womanizing actors."
(excerpt from www.novelguide.com)
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THE CAST

Andrew Rally ~ Mark Mocarski
John Barrymore ~ Rob Nowak
Diedre McDavey ~ Julie Bayer
Lillian Troy ~ Aimee Kennedy
Gary Peter Lefkowitz ~ Aaron G. Stash
Felicia Dantine ~ Terri Virgilio