'Ophelia' Review: Here's That Awful 'Hamlet' Fanfiction No One Asked For | Sundance 2018

Shakespeare is not holy writ. If people want to set his plays to different time periods or use the plot as the inspiration for another story (like Throne of Blood or 10 Things I Hate About You), that's fine. Even something like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead uses Hamlet as a springboard to reach ideas that go beyond Shakespeare's original play. But it takes some balls to look at Hamlet, and I think, "I can fix this." And yet that's exactly what Claire McCarthy's adaptation of Lisa Klein's...