Umlaut, Prince of Düsseldorf

Umlaut, Prince of Düsseldorf imagines a hapless and incompetent theatre company attempting a condensed version of Hamlet

Cue bungled lines, an over-eager smoke machine operator and a severely injured Cup Bearer

The ghost is determined to ruin all of Umlaut's best speeches while Hildegard, the Coarse Acting version of Ophelia, keeps forgetting that she's supposed to be dead

Cast and crew battle on regardless - surely the audience won't have noticed a thing?

Characters

Klaus, King of Dusseldorf
Wilhelmina, his wife and Queen
Umlaut, her son by her previous marriage to the late king
Ghost, of the former king
Gezundheit, Chancellor
Hildegard, his daughter
Grolsch, Gezundheit's son and Hildegard's brother
Budweiser and Kronenbourg, soldiers
Rosenstern and Guildencranz, spies
Anthrax, a courtier
Clown, a gravedigger
First Player + Courtiers + Attendants + Strolling Players

One-act

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