
Moppets Present: Hamlet
Energetic youth-led staging of Shakespeare's Hamlet by the Montford Moppets Youth Shakespeare, reimagining the classic tragedy with adolescent actors delivering raw monologues, tense confrontations, and community-driven theatricality.
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