Beth Lopes, Associate Artistic Director, New Swan Shakespeare Festival, returns for her fourth season to direct Hamlet.  “At its heart, Hamlet is a ghost story.  While most of us push away the shadow of mortality, Hamlet embraces it in the form of his father’s ghost. This ghost is present throughout this production, driving the action forward and forcing his son to grapple with outrageous circumstances.  We all carry ghosts with us – ghosts which comfort and ghosts which burden – and we can’t always choose which ones we will encounter.  Luckily for Hamlet, and for the audience, his father’s ghost appears to us all, and we travel on this journey together as the boy becomes a man … and then a ghost story of his own.”  This visceral, fast-paced production is perfectly suited for the vulnerable intimacy of the New Swan Theater.