DD is spearheading (okay-- driving. She is DRIVING the bus) an effort on behalf of her AP Literature class to turn her... um... unorthodox 'vision' of Hamlet into...

Ham-Ham, the Musical.


Envision Silence of the Lambs meets Spongebob Squarepants somewhere in the middle of An American in Paris.

It is to include musical numbers worthy of Busby Berkeley with titles as varied as "Yo-yo-YO-YOrick!" and "See-ya/Whiplash" (capping a tender 'love' scene with Opie, the doomed girl who wakes up and smells the coffee when Ham-Ham offers up a dowry of... an STD and his undying devotion (well, off and on, anyway) with seeming aplomb, looks around and realizes that she is trapped into life with someone irretrievably delusional and increasingly, dangerously, psychotic, though she is evidently the only one no longer riding on the Denial Bullet-Train of "grief takes many forms/stress will do that")...

They've now introduced "Claude-the-Broad" into things as the new king, who is being crushed under the weight of his new responsibilities, the fear that his cross-dressing might be revealed to all, and his understandable worry over his nephew's increasingly erratic (and possibly dangerous?) behaviors. Of course he seems stressed. NATURALLY he is borrowing some of Gertie's things under those conditions. What a loving and open-minded SIL she is. wink

This is what PG kids do when something grabs them and sparks something-- it just happens all too seldom with DD, who is so woefully underchallenged so much of the time. This is entirely outside the box. There is no grade involved, it's all unofficial and completely non-directed by any adults. I love watching this when it happens.

Though if any Youtube video of specific flashmob activity surfaces in the next few weeks...

:hiding:

DD13 is writing the script and lyrics. They've had some trouble casting Ham-Ham. It's a pretty meaty role, after all, and it requires a good actor to play someone psychotic who can (mostly?) pass for merely 'anxious' rather than delusional.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.