Sat., Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. on 90.5 FM & STREAMING | A group of inmates at a high-security prison rehearse and stage a production of the last act—Act V—of Hamlet.
Shakespeare's Hamlet may seem like an odd match for a group of hardened criminals, but they understand the Bard on a level that most of us might not. It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers, living out the consequences.
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