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HamLit

Sweet Tea Shakespeare takes one performance a year to let their hair down and have an even more interactive experience with their audience. The Lit series migrates through local breweries and pubs, and features an irreverent take on a classic Shakespeare play, bits of improv, and pulling the audience (literally) into the show. It’s a fun evening, and this one left me laughing from behind my camera.

Filling in one of Polonius’ many speeches with mad libs.

A toast to kick off the show.

Every Hamlet has a game of flip cup in the first act, right?

Audience participation, feat. ruffle collars.

Hamlet’s dad shows up.

The players rehearse Hamlet’s new play, plus a few suggestions from the audience.

Is it really a Sweet Tea Shakespeare + Thistle & Sun shoot if I don’t get a photograph of Traycie singing with all her heart? I think not.

The next section is entitled Hamlet Thinks About Stabbing Multiple People, Accidentally Kills Prospective Father-in-Law Instead.

Poor Ophelia, driven mad by grief or love.

A toast to start a duel that will be deadly to all of the main characters except Horatio.