"Hamlet"

By Elizabeth Wood

What happens when a Hero can't make up his mind? Does he have nightmare dreams, feeling betrayed? Do family and friends think he's crazy? Despair of one he loves? Kill the wrong person?

Watch this spiraling debacle as Prince Hamlet seeks revenge for the murder of his Father in Shakespeare's classic tragedy "Hamlet." 6:30pm Tuesday, July 9, Roundup City Park. Free live theater brought by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (MSIP.)

Prince Hamlet returns to Denmark to mourn the death of his Father, only to find his Mother remarried, so quickly, to Claudius, the King. She marries his Father's brother. Is it a conspiracy?

A ghost claims that Claudius poured poison in his brother's ear as he slept. Is the whisper true? Prince Hamlet, needs to know, and gets local players to act out the murder scene. King Claudius angrily storms out. Is it confirmation? How to revenge the death of a King? How many are guilty? How many must die?

Discover who will end up King of Denmark at 6:30pm on Tuesday the 9th. Or come early! The BackPorch BBQ food truck will be in Roundup City Park starting an hour ahead. Mike Morgan and Mallory Morgan will begin pre-show music at 6:00pm.

Bring your picnic baskets and lawn chairs for dinner and live theater under summer skies. If the weather is inclement, the play will be performed at the Community Center, 700 3rd Street West. Shakespeare in the Parks is free to all.

MSIP performs two plays each summer. We bring a tragedy to Roundup this year, but you may also wish to see "a mingling of kings and clowns" in the tragicomedy "The Winter's Tale" in Red Lodge on Sunday, July 14 at 6:30pm, Lions Park.

Roundup Arts & Culture (A & C) is a standing committee of the Musselshell Valley Community Foundation, bringing you Shakespeare in the Park each summer and we count on the generous support of our local patrons. Please consider a gift to A & C through the Musselshell Valley Community Foundation. All donations are 501(c)3 deductible.

A & C can afford to bring live theater to Roundup because we provide the actors meals and overnight accommodations. If you would like to host an actor overnight after the performance, please contact Bill Milton at 406-323-1771.