Twelve Ophelias August 4, 2008

'Twelve Ophelias' centers on Hamlet's Ophelia coming back to life, out of the water, to try to overcome her history and forge a new destiny for herself. She finds herself in an Appalachian 'Elsinore,' Denmark by way of 'Deliverance' -- where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet and Horatio slum it, and nothing is what it seems. In this squarely American and gritty interpretation of the Hamlet myth, 'Twelve Ophelias' asks how it is possible to break old cycles and start afresh when the past so completely permeates your life.