A Performer's Notes on Parody

If you cross a nerdy Jewish woman with an aspiration to portray the melancholy Prince of Denmark, you get a journey that begins and ends in Parody. This performative essay is an investigation of Parody as a tool of the outsider looking in, and chronicles the movement towards a full-length production of Hamlet from a female Jewish performance artist whose intital foray into Shakespeare's masterpiece takes the form of a bathing-suit competition, and whose use of parodic methods inches her closer to the fulfillment of this classic role.