web series
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directed by
Bobby Ciraldo
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William Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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'' as a bizarre and comical tour through the ages. The world premiere was held at the
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Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA LA) in April 2014.
This version of ''Hamlet'' is a comedy shot entirely in front of a green screen and features live-action characters in an animated world. The story begins in 1602 and leaps chronologically through time to the present, then into the distant future.
Guest stars include
Dustin Diamond
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Saved by the Bell
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Mark Metcalf
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Animal House
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Trace Beaulieu
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Mark Borchardt
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American Movie
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Leslie Hall
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Yo Gabba Gabba!
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Tay Zonday
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Chocolate Rain
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Michael Q. Schmidt
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Gregg Turkington
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as his character
Neil Hamburger
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Milwaukee
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Hamlet is an easily distracted prince who is not quite ready to do the task at hand. Challenged to kill his uncle Claudius by the ghost of his recently dead father, Hamlet enthusiastically proceeds to do everything but. From practicing stage acting in the 1800s to producing a television drama in the 1950s, from dancing at the discothèque in the 1970s to culinary prankery in the distant future, Hamlet always manages to find something to distract himself from taking revenge for his father's murder.