STAGE TUBE: Annette O'Toole and Michael Laurence Offer Glimpses of HAMLET IN BED

"It's a play about obsession," says director Lisa Peterson of Michael Laurence's HAMLET IN BED, now previewing at the Rattlestick Playwright's Theater. "Like a dark ALICE IN WONDERLAND, journey through the caverns of someone's obsession."

Playwright Laurence plays the male role in his two-person dark comedy; an actor obsessed with playing HAMLET and in finding his birth mother. Annette O'Toole plays a women he thinks could be his mother, so he invents a production of Shakespeare's masterpiece and has her audition for Gertrude.

Peterson, Laurence and O'Toole talk about HAMLET IN BED, with teasing glimpses of Rattlestick's production.

HAMLET IN BED, written by Michael Laurence and directed by Lisa Peterson, is currently in previews for a September 17, 2015 opening. HAMLET IN BED plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. Joining Mr. Laurence in the cast is Annette O'Toole. The production runs through Sunday, October 25. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars in action below!

Michael is a neurotic actor and adoptee obsessed with two things -- finding his real mother, and playing the famous gloomy Dane. His twin fixations collide when he tracks down Anna, a reclusive former actress-turned-barfly; gripped by the notion that she might be his actual birth-mother, he first stalks her from a distance, then lures her into a noirish production of Hamlet playing the role of his mother the queen. HAMLET IN BED is a twisty and darkly comic story about mothers and sons -- about what it means to live a life in the theatre, both a generation ago, and now -- and about families -- the ones we're born into, and the ones we find along the way.

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