fun and games

But the self-placed weight of representing and sharing their lifelong culture isn’t always all fun and games.

With the franchise officially out of ideas, how about skipping to “Jurassic Park: One Million Years A.D.” so a futuristic species can resurrect us for some malevolent fun and games?

Playwright and director Robert O’Hara has turned his puckish attention to “Hamlet,” treating Shakespeare’s tragedy not as an august cultural treasure that has held the world’s attention for more than 400 years but as a squeaky plaything that can be exploited for eccentric fun and games.

Palmer appears confident in the presumption that viewers will simply go along with it because that’s the pop culture compact of late, and while despising the rich is all fun and games, the exercise strikes as regressive when the routines are this rote.

It wasn’t all fun and games, though.