October 24-November 2, 2003
8 p.m. October 24-25, 31 & November 1
2 p.m. October 25-26 & November 1-2
6:30 p.m. October 26 & November 2

This stirring story of one man’s quest for truth is the most famous of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Hamlet is a man too smart for his purpose and struggles in a constant internal battle between reason and passion. Shakespeare spins a haunting tale of ghosts, love, murder and revenge. According to The Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeare edited by Louis B. Wright, “Of all the plays written by Shakespeare, Hamlet has enjoyed the greatest popularity. It was a success when it was first performed, probably about 1600, and it has had constant revivals through the centuries. The plot of Hamlet comes ultimately from Saxo Grammaticus’ Historia Danica, a twelfth-century chronicle first printed in Paris in 1514, but Shakespeare did not take his plot directly from this source. Shakespeare apparently based his play, upon an older play, which evidently was never printed.”

Directed by Larry Biederman, the cast features Stephen Kline as Hamlet, Christopher Goss as Claudius, Jarred Kjack as Laertes, Abby Eiland as Gertrude, Heather Raley as Ophelia, Christopher Manus as Polonius, Brian Vestal as Horatio, Brad Stanley as Rosencrantz, Hilary Pingle as Guildenstern, and Gregory Allen as the Player King and Gravedigger.

Mai Sakai is the set designer, Bruce Goodrich is the costume designer, Nathan Jones is the lighting designer, Lucy Conley is the make-up designer, and John Fisher is the sound designer.

Tickets available at the CSUF Performing Arts Center box office, 657-278-3371. Hours: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Mondays-Fridays and one hour prior to performance.

Tickets are also available at www.tickets.com or EMAIL us at pac-boxoffice@fullerton.edu