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Hamlet:The Clown Prince

When I heard that there was a going to be play on Hamlet in Chennai directed by Rajat Kapoor, I immediately warned my friends against it, stating that it would be super super boring to watch tragedy. It’s not that tragedies and serious plays are bad, but somehow I don’t seem to enjoy that so much. Anyways, coming back, one of my colleagues still went for the play and returned with raving praises for it. He said, it down right funny and hilarious and was something very good we missed. Funny, that’s right. I was equally surprised, as to how can a tragedy be depicted as funny? So next time this group came back to Chennai, we made sure that we didn’t miss it. And am extremely glad about it, as after 2 hrs of Hamlet, I found myself exhausted with all the laughing I did and had a smile on my face as I left the theatre. This definitely was one of the best plays that I had seen so far. The play revolves around 6 clowns who are basically tired of doing comedy and therefore decide to enact trage