Ophelia has her hair teased and sprayed like, a foot over her head, with giant hoop earrings and the very gaudy combo of bright turquoise skirts with hot pink tank tops. She still says all the lines as written but with a valley girl accent.
Horatio has shaggy, messy hair and wears heavy barn jackets over denim shirts. He’s got ‘ACT UP’ pins all over his jacket and is clearly uncomfortable being around Hamlet’s family.
Hamlet, even wearing all black (including round black tinted glasses) is still v 80s. He has the ‘long ass bangs but real short in the back’ cut, and most of his jackets have huge shoulders to them. He listens to Don’t Fear The Reaper and Tom Sawyer A LOT. While he doesn’t have as many pins as Horatio, he does have a few Gay Lib ones.
Claudius and Gertrude are VERY 80s conservative politican. Gertrude has giant shoulder pads and helmet hair (and probably a Margaret Thatcher calendar). Claudius is all smiles and handshakes until you get alone with him, then he’s a real mean bastard.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are both decked out in neon so bright is hard to look at them. Laertes is a TOTAL young republican. Marcellus and Bernardo are security personnel for Hamlet’s parents. Osric is the MOST swishy 80s gay.
Hamlet sees the ghost of his father for the first time in an abandoned warehouse, as Come On Eileen plays somewhere softly in the distance.
