How does the audience react to the production of Hamlet in Chapter 31 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens?

The presentation of Hamlet by Mr.
Wopsle is a farce, so poorly done that the audience reacts with laughter and derision.
Among the ridiculous aspects of the performance are the deceased king, who cannot stop
coughing even when he is supposed to be dead, and must read his lines from a manuscript,
a queen who has the appearance of a kettledrum, and a boy who plays multiple roles
almost simultaneously, and none of them well. The audience quickly loses patience with
the ludicrous performance, and reacts loudly, with sassy retorts and laughter. When
Ophelia, with maddening slowness, takes off her white scarf and folds it, a "sulky man"
shouts out from among the onlookers, "Now the baby's put to bed, let's have supper!",
and when Hamlet himself asks rhetorical questions in his soliloquy, "quite a Debating
Society" arises in the audience, and individuals shout out sardonic answers and comments
in response. Mr. Wopsle, in particular, performs laughably, and the audience does not
hold back in voicing its scornful displeasure.

The scene in
the graveyard is rendered especially poorly, and when Mr. Wopsle returns a skull to its
place after moralizing over it, and fastidiously wipes his fingers on a white napkin
before going on, there is a sarcastic cry of "Wai-ter!" from the frustrated viewing
populace. Pip and Herbert, who are watching the play, at first make "some pale
efforts...to applaud Mr. Wopsle," but, finding the play "too hopeless," sit there
laughing along with the majority despite themselves, even though they are "feeling
keenly" for Mr. Wopsle, who is the only one who takes the whole disaster seriously
(Chapter 31).