In Caridad Svich's play with songs TWELVE OPHELIAS Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel Hamlet is called a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.