Melbourne Fringe: The Hamlet Apocalypse

We broke the Melbourne Fringe ice on Saturday night with two shows. My thoughts on "Speaking" are better left unspoken, but the first show - The Hamlet Apocalypse - was brilliant. I suspect I may have seen the best show of the festival already!

The premise is that six actors are performing Hamlet. They keep breaking out of character to tell the audience about themselves: the way they perceive their characters, the reason they became actors, what they want their last act on earth to be. The act...