It's a challenging play to do, but we like to challenge the students in this program. And they're up to it.

It's choppy and direct; the speeches are less flowery. It really lends itself to the film noir style.

Film noir is all about murder, passion, espionage and revenge, and that's what 'Hamlet' is about. So I felt this approach to the play would be interesting and appropriate.

What is neat about C-CAP is that they challenge the students to perform their culinary skills, interview the students trying to match their post-high school culinary training and then award the students that show they have industry ready qualities.

She was so impressed. She said these three students were by far the most intelligent and most articulate that she'd interviewed, and she asked if she could use all three.

The students are learning to deal with daily realities and they don't come ready to handle all that. We like to be their training wheels.