This production will likely be more faithful to the bard than to Amazon Prime.

It will open with the line: “Now is the nuclear winter of our discontent.”

“Just imagine a post-apocalyptic ghoulified Laurence Olivier that’s what we’re going for. "

Members of the Wasteland Theatre Company gather in Fallout 76

But the director says there have been mercifully few problems, at least with the human observers.

“The Fallout 76 community is notoriously nice,” he told us.

“One of our rehearsals was nuked though,” he added.

Two playbills for the Wasteland Theatre Company of Fallout 76, advertising Richard III and Hamlet

“It is the Wasteland after all.”

And a wasteland audience requires a wasteland adaptation.

“And who knows, maybe they are interested in joining up as an actor!”

Occupational hazards include being nuked, of course.