The Hamlet Project

Do they? Gertrude can’t hear this fellow in the closet. It is entirely possible that no one can hear this ghost but Hamlet. There’s no indication that they are responding to what the ghost says. They’re listening to Hamlet, watching him talk to the floor, the old mole in the earth. In staging it, probably a group of people hearing a spooky voice is more interesting than one but I’d like to try both. What if this line isn’t a statement of fact – but a hope – as in “You heard what I heard, right?” as in an unasked question, an attempt to reaffirm what one hopes is the truth. As in, “you love me” as in, “It’s not going to rain” as in, “It all works out in the end.”