Fortinbras (play)

This article is about the Lee Blessing play. For other uses, see Fortinbras (disambiguation).

Fortinbras is a 1991 play by American playwright Lee Blessing. Set immediately following William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play recounts the events after Hamlet's death that go on throughout Elsinore. The play includes almost every character from Hamlet returning as a ghost.^[1]

Production

Fortinbras opened on 18 June 1991 at the La Jolla Playhouse.^[2]

Crew

Name	Role
Des McAnuff	Artistic Director[2]
Alan Levey	Managing Director
Robert Brill	Scene design
Susan Hilferty	Costume design
Chris Parry	Lighting design
Michael Roth	Music and sound design
Kenneth Ted Bible	Sound design
Andy Tighe	Stage manager

Cast

Name	Role
Don Reilly	Hamlet[2]
Jefferson Mays	Osric
Ralph Bruneau	Horatio
William Gain	English ambassador
Daniel Jenkins	Fortinbras
Paul Gutrecht	Captain of the Norwegian army
James Crawford	Marcellus
James Kiernan	Barnardo
Archer Martin	Polish maiden
Kim C. Walsh	Polish maiden
William Cain	Polonius
Laura Linney	Ophelia
Jonathan Freeman	Claudius
Devon Allen	Gertrude
Josh Sebers	Laertes