Laertes, Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all went, wrapped up in the shape of Andrew Fallaize, to New York City and stayed with a friend in The Village. The only news we have is: ‘It’s a blast!’ and something about martinis.
Hamlet is back in London and rejoined his Ophelia.
Polonius went back to his Mrs Polonius and their children, to whom he took back a veritable suitcase of trophies plucked from all corners of the tour – something from Indiana, Texas, Illinois, and Tennessee.
Gertrude and Claudius hit Route 66 in a Toyota – they took up the mother road in Oklahoma and followed it to California. In Malibu Canyon, staring over the Pacific ocean, they wrote down their ultimate mileage – 2,621
Here are some pictures from their travels, the captions are Shakespeare’s – the perspective is out of Hamlet:
1. ‘But look, the morn in russet mantle clad
Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill’
(Horatio – Monument Valley, Utah)
2. ‘Do it, England,
For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me’
(Claudius – Grand Canyon, Arizona)
3. ‘What shall I do?’
(Gertrude – North Texas, old route 66)
4. ‘Nay, I know not. Is it the King?’
(Hamlet – Lansky’s, Clothier to the King, Memphis)
Now wears his crown’
(Ghost – Lansky’s, Clothier to the King, Memphis)
5. ‘The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown’
(Ghost – Lansky’s, Clothier to the King, Memphis)
6. ‘Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris’
(Polonius – trolley car, Memphis)
7. ‘The steep and thorny way to heaven’
(Ophelia – Route 66, mid-point – north Texas)
8. ‘the rank sweat of an enseam`ed bed’
(Hamlet – the Solarium, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico)