Critical Choices

Head of the Class, Season 1 episode 08.

Synopsis
Charlie tries his hand at Hamlet, and solicits his students' feedback -- which is less than flattering.

Plot
Charlie is putting on his own ' contemporary' version of Hamlet in an experimental New Jersey theater. He lets the class be the first ones to see it. He then asks them to write their critique of it. At class when he sees them; most of the class pan it.

Characters
Charlie Moore

Harold Samuels

Bernadette Meara

Alan Pinkard

Arvid Engen

Darlene Merriman

Dennis Blunden

Eric Mardian

Janice Lazarotto

Jawaharlal Choudhury

Maria Borges

Sarah Nevins

Simone Foster

Vernon Thomas

'Hamlet'

'Ophelia'

Locations
Millard Fillmore High School

Playhouse Theater

Quotes
"'Or course, one person's b-movie claptrap might be another person's contemporary symbolism.' - Charlie Moore"