Hamlet in 65 minutes with twins playing everyone? Shakespeare just got weird.
Acting
Helen Mirren plays BOTH Ophelia AND Gertrude—dude, what?
Direction
Twin brothers swap Hamlet/Laertes mid-scene. Intentionally disorienting.
Production
Shot on stark black-and-white 16mm with theatrical minimalism.
Director
Celestino Coronado
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Quentin Crisp, playing Polonius, was a famous queer icon and author of 'The Naked Civil Servant'—casting him as the meddling father adds delicious subversion.
This was part of 1970s UK's radical Shakespeare reimagining, when directors treated the text as raw material rather than sacred object—punk rock Bard.
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