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Poor Hamlet (the play, not the character). It's one of those plays that just can't catch a break. Hell, there's even a play called I Hate Hamlet. And yet, it manages to be one of the most quoted plays in the canon, one of the most frequently taught plays from its time, and (one could argue), one of Shakespeare's most analyzed (and over analyzed!) works.

The Mystery Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, currently being staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, is an interesting work to wrap your head around: it is, at first at least, quite literally an evening of related-but-not-too-closely-linked mystery plays—two, to be exact. Only, they're not quite mystery plays: the first one is a tale of the supernatural that combines Hitchcock with George Romero—there is mystery there, but it seems almost secondary to the creepiness; the second, a family drama, is less a mystery than the story behind a cold case. The play is simultaneously exactly what its title indicates, and not what the title indicates at all.