Hamlet on trial

"Is the prince of Denmark mentally competent to stand trial for the murder of Polonius?"

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles will present a Jan. 31 mock trial to determine the answer in a program created and presided over by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

The legal-literary proceedings, which will be held at USC's Bovard Auditorium, will be run "as if it were a bona fide trial," says Ben Donenberg, the Shakespeare Center's founder and artistic director. "A lot rests on the testimony of expert witnesses. The lawyers will present their arguments. Justice Kennedy will adjudicate. We won't know the outcome until the jury brings back the verdict."

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