A local high school did a production of "Hamlet" in which they used broomsticks for the Hamlet/Laertes duel at the end!! Why? Because school policy forbade "weapons" (foils, epees, and sabers are for sport).

I didn't go, but I could envision the King providing Laertes with a poisoned broomstick and Hamlet getting an envenomed splinter...how Hamlet would run the King through with poisoned broomstick was beyond my imagination.

More Punch and Judy than Hamlet....