"Are you the people Hamlet has been talking to?" Ophelia asks the audience.

While navigating grief and contemplating suicide, Hamlet gets 1,506 lines as the titular character in his own play. While navigating grief and contemplating suicide, plus enduring gaslighting and assault, Ophelia gets 173 lines as a side character in her ex-boyfriend’s story.

In "too much of water," it's Ophelia's turn.

Through calls to Laertes, visions of Hamlet, and, of course, her own soliloquy, "too much of water" explores women's mental health in 1605 and 2025 - how much and, unfortunately, how little has changed. It poses the question that maybe, if instead of gaslighting, shaming, and abusing women with mental illness, we were helping, listening, and loving them, there’s a possibility of "to be" in a world full of "not to be."

Internationally recognized for films, BraveMouse makes its stage debut with this new play from sisters Brock and Avery Looser. Built-in-best-friends Brock (actor / writer / producer and recent LAMDA grad) and Avery (director / producer and assistant director on "The Phoenician Scheme") have grown up telling stories together. They believe with BraveMouse that by supporting women, not only in the stories we tell but in how we tell them, we have the power to change the narrative for all.

Don’t miss this devastatingly relevant take on Ophelia’s hauntingly timeless story.

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia” – Laertes (Hamlet, 4.7.185)