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Dashiell Hamlett: The Blue Dane Meets the Black Bird

by Tony Pisculli

2019

(based on 5 ratings)
1 review

About the Story

How would Hamlet fare if recast as a man of action in a film noir and hired to solve his father’s murder?


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Audience Choice--Most Avant-Garde, Most Laughs, Main Festival - Spring Thing 2019

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A deconstruction of Hamlet in Ink, April 14, 2019
by MathBrush
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More than any other piece of Western literature, Hamlet has been mangled up and mashed and transformed, from Hamletmachine to Lion King. But it makes sense, because it's a compelling story.

This version is a mashup between The Maltese Falcon and Hamlet. It borrows heavily from noir tropes, to the point of parody, but it also features heavy elements of surrealism.

This is a short, linear game that maintains an illusion of slightly less linearity.

It's an interesting concept. Some of the surreality was hard to distinguish from bugs at first, and this created a kind of disconnect between me and the interaction.

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