Centuries after the events of Hamlet, Ophelia has risen out of the water with a craving for sex, sweet things, and revenge. She finds herself in a fractured world where nothing is as it seems. Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called Rude Boy, Horatio is an embittered wrestler, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two ghostly guardians of memory. Within this cold landspace, Ophelia struggles to cut a new path and awaken her long buried voice.

12 Ophelias explores the cycles of violence that dominate women’s lives by giving voice to one of Shakespeare’s most silenced heroines. 

Written by Caridad Svich
Directed by Zoe Senese-Grossberg '20
Tickets are $5. If the cost of the show poses a problem for you, please feel free to contact osta@oberlin.edu.

CW: depictions of violence and sexual violence, sexual content, discussions of rape, abortion, and prostitution, vague discussions of suicide, and one brief homophobic slur.