They met while performing 'Hamlet' in 1994 .

I have performed Hamlet well over eight hundred times in my life.

It is like watching a first-grade class perform "Hamlet."

The women form a lasting friendship, and go on to perform Hamlet together, with Lauren in the title role.

For their 18th season they are performing Hamlet in English with French subtitles.

The top seat price is £9.50 and among the visiting companies this summer are Shakespeare's Globe, who will perform Hamlet, July 11-15.

Varney said his dream role would have been to perform Hamlet.

During night shifts he would perform Hamlet and other Shakespeare plays that he had learned at school, earning the nickname "Hamlet".

Since the theorists are not identified onstage and at times the actors speak their lines while seemingly performing "Hamlet," the result is something of a jigsaw puzzle.

Never before has a fourth-grade class at Hillside School performed "Hamlet" better.