As the radio recording interviewed several prisoners who acted in the play Hamlet, We see how the prisoners identify easily with the characters partly because they had committed crimes similar to the ones Hamlet did, and experienced the emotions that Hamlet did. One man said that his experience of being an angry man helped him from being the character of Hamlet in the play since he had ease connecting with him.
I find it interesting that making the prisoners, who had been previously murderers, robbers, or had committed some other crime, characters in Hamlet. Not only that, but it's probably one of the smartest anyone could've ever come up with. This is primarily because the characters in Hamlet, are really the kind of people some of them were when they lived a normal outside of prison: vengative, with anger issues and possibly even insane. For the first time, someone has come up with the idea of casting actors that resemble in a lot of ways the actual characters of the play.
