When you hear the title Hamlet, what are the first things or ideas you find roaming through your mind? Do you imagine Elizabethan actors and a classic Shakespeare setting, filled with flowers and intricate apparel? Do you imagine kings and queens? Most likely, you did not automatically think of New York City or big corporations. Michael Almereyda was able to blow each and every one of his audience members straight out their seats, with his own unique presentation of Hamlet presented in 2000. Technology and modernized dilemmas are introduced in Almereyda’s portrayal of Hamlet as Hamlet’s father, CEO of Denmark, was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle in order to get the business’s name.
