The thing's the play.

Last night we went to a pair of well done plays.  First was a 90-minute condensation of Hamlet , just a lean version of the classic.  Then an intermission, and then the hour-long _The Prince Formerly Known as Hamlet_, a hard-boiled mystery narrated by "Justin Thyme."   Some of the comedy was eye-rolling silly, but of course that doesn't bother me.  The actors in the second did parodies of their roles in the first.  Hamlet himself was especially funny, thrashing around refusing to die on cue.  Ophelia in the first one was demure and understatedly sexy; in the second she was "Feelya," not at all demure, in a sexy dress that could rise and fall like Venetian blinds.The first line of the second play is also the catch-phrase on the advertising poster:  "The problems of one Danish prince don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Joe