A Room in the Castle” does more than just retell “Hamlet”—it demands a reconsideration of who gets to tell stories and why.

Adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell, this "Hamlet," onstage at American Conservatory Theater's Strand Theater, takes place within a rather claustrophobic enclosure that is beautifully ...

Pictured above is Hamlet talking with Claudius and Gertrude during the opening scene. There's a stark contrast in the white costumes of the king and queen compared to Hamlet dressed in sombre black.

Instead of giving herbs and flowers to the King and Queen ... his ghostly appearance. Hamlet looked long and hard at the ghost reaching out his arms for him. Gertrude didn't see the ghost in ...

It delves into the women of the Danish court – the widowed Queen Gertrude who quickly married ... Where the unraveling Hamlet asks, “to be, or not to be?” the women of Elsinore emphatically ...