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ISBN 0 9583392 5
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Ophelia Thinks Harder
J. Betts & W. Shakespeare
This play has been extremely popular with schools, on the curriculum and regularly in production for many years.
Reviewers’ comments include:-
“Hamlet is doctored with a mighty sharp blade to make this a fantastic farce to rival the best of Shakespeare’s.”
“This play has become a New Zealand classic, performed everywhere and a fixture on school and university curricula.”
“History is rewritten, speeches reworked and best of all, the best lines go to an incredibly hard-thinking Ophelia.”
“A passionate exploration of female myth and reality; patriarchy, marriage, the cult of the virgin – all get a right going-over.”
“Energy, scope, intellectual challenge and triumphant theatricality. Perfect play pillaging.”
It has won the Chapman Tripp Award Most Original Production and was a finalist for NZ Radio Drama Awards.
Jean Betts
has worked as an actor, director, playwright and script advisor in NZ and abroad for many years. She is an original member of The Women’s Play Press collective, from which The Play Press was born.