Stick Figure Iconography: Player King

As we leave the play-within-a-play, let’s take a closer look at Elsinore’s favorite thespian.

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

I’m taking next week off to get caught up with Life, but Hamlet will resume the week after that! It’s gonna be CLOSET TIME soon!

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 6)

OK, let’s FINALLY wrap up this scene.

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

In case you’re keeping track at home, we haven’t yet QUITE reached any of the most popular intermission breaks in this very possibly interminable play.

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 5)

The play WAS the thing wherein the conscience of the king was caught. Now, let’s deal with the fallout…

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 4)

OK, let’s wrap up this play-within-a-play thing!

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

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A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 3)

Let’s go on with the shoooowwwww!

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Hamlet is not subtle.

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 2)

Another op’nin’, another show
In London, Paris, or Elsinoe
A chance for stagefolks to reenact a murder
Another op’nin, another show…

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Confession: I kind of love dumb shows.

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 2 (part 1)

Let’s get this play underway!

No, not this play. The other play. The play-within-a-play.

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (part 4)

It’s NUNNERY TIME

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Seriously, if I was Ophelia I would 100% go to that nunnery, given the toxic attitudes of every single man in her life. Get away from there, honey.