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A Room in the Castle at Folger Theatre

Dates: (3/4/2025 - 4/6/2025 )

Theatre:

Folger Theatre

Co-produced with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company

201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington,DC 20003

Phone: 202-544-7077

Tickets: $20 - $84

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How does a woman survive the court of Denmark? Room in the Castle finds Ophelia, her handmaid, and her Queen Gertrude on the other end of a wild prince’s antics and realizing just how dangerous life in this castle has become. As Ophelia withstands Hamlet’s assaults and insults, Gertrude comes to see how far gone her son truly is. What is she willing to risk to save Ophelia and herself if it means turning against her problematic child? A meditation on women helping women, what mothering a potential madman means, and what responsibility generations of feminists have to one another, A Room in the Castle rebrands the stories of the women of Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a drama with music and defiant hope for the future.



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