12 Ophelias
By: Caridad Svich
Director: Jess Shoemaker
Costume Designer: Delena Bradley
Scenic Designer: Chris Conard
Lighting Designer: Kendra Wiley
Drapers: Sarah Aldridge, Samantha Gashette, Poua Yang
Costume crafts and dyeing: Tanya Olalde
Photographer: Lawrence Peart, Courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin
Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water, dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance, Brockett Theatre, 2019