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Clockwise from upper right: Renee Ombaba (Horatio), Jacqueline Youm (Claudius), Lexi Stein (Ophelia), and Jaki Demarest (Gertrude) in “Hamless.” The Rude Mechanicals, in residence at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is currently offering their unique, take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” online, entitled “Hamless.” This interesting look at the Shakespearean classic is produced by Joshua Engel and directed by Erin Nealer. “Hamlet” has been a source of other plays in the past. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” is one that comes to mind immediately. Like “Hamless,” Tom Stoppard’s play took characters out of the original story and gave them a closer look. This production imagines the Danish Court without Hamlet. All of our other favorites are here Gertrude (Jaki Demarest), Claudius (Jacqueline Youm), Ophelia (Lexi Stein), Laertes (Allison McAlister), Polonius (Justin Bigelow), Horatio (Renee Ombaba), and even Rosencrantz (Claudia Bach) and Guildenster ....
Wes Dennis as Petruchio and Melissa Schick as Maria in “The Tamer Tamed.” For Valentine’s week, The Rude Mechanicals present “The Tamer Tamed,” directed by Liana Olear and produced by Joshua Engel. The first performance was available February 13 on YouTube. There will be a second showing on February 20, 2021. The play was written around 1608 by John Fletcher, a contemporary and sometime collaborator of Shakespeare, and is a sequel to the Bard’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” The premise is Petruchio (Wes Dennis) is now a widower. Kate has sadly died. He is now looking for a new wife and chooses her cousin, Maria (Melissa Schick). However, unlike Kate, Maria is not tamable. She uses refusal to perform her wifely duties as a way of controlling Petruchio. Not only she, but all the women in the town, decline to have conjugal relations with their mates. In the mix is Maria’s sister, Livia (Linda “Spencer” Dye), who would like to marry her love, Rowland (Sara ....