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Green Eggs & Hamlet Play

October 3, 2003

CARROLLTON, GA - Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but it’s definitely not the Green Eggs and Hamlet!

UWG News Photo Though the pairing of Shakespeare and Dr. Seuss may be unusual, in a play designed to introduce the bard to children, it’s a dramatic, tongue-tying roller coaster filled with laughs and unexpected twists.

Green Eggs and Hamlet presents William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as Dr. Seuss might have written it. It will be performed Thursday, Oct. 16, by the Ozark Actors Theatre of Rolla, Ark., at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on the University of West Georgia campus.

The lighthearted play, although designed for children, is an experience the whole family can enjoy. It’s so much fun, in fact, that the audience is bound to disagree with Hamlet’s sentiments at the sight of his father’s ghost: “My eyes, they deceive me; I think I must sit. No I do not like it, not one little bit.”

The play begins with the four cast members donning the red and white striped hats made famous in Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat to recite the plot of the show. Then in a series of rhyming scenes punctuated with lightning-quick costume changes, the actors romp through sword fights, ghostly visits, a drowning, a poisoning and a murder. Along the way, they’re assisted by a cast of extras portrayed by puppets.

The amusing banter is something out of the ordinary in a rendering of Shakespeare’s tragic tale, but it makes for an uncommonly good night of theatre.

Green Eggs and Hamlet will be performed on the Townsend Center main stage on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 for general admission (all ages) and free
for UWG students.

For reservations, contact the Townsend Center at 770-836-6694. For more information about other upcoming Townsend Center events, visit www.townsendcenter.org.

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