User:Geo Swan/Twelve Ophelias

Twelve Ophelias is a play from Caridad Svich.

The Ophelia of the title is a character borrowed from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet's lover, or ex-lover. In Hamlet Ophelia kills herself. Twelve Ophelias begins with Ophelia re-awakening in the 21st Centure, in America, in hillbilly country. A bluegrass band provides musical accompaniment.