Did I Ever Tell You Guys How Much I Love Making Venn Diagrams. Anyway Venn Diagram Of My Three Blorbos

did I ever tell you guys how much I love making Venn Diagrams. anyway Venn Diagram of my three blorbos

oh yeah. happy international woman’s day also

portrayals of hamlet where he’s effeminate, has feminine traits and/or is played by a woman >>>

ok so for those of you who were unaware, I’m directing a part of Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 (specifically the whole Mousetrap play-within-a-play bit) for a competition. Does anyone have any advice, thoughts, or suggestions on how I could take this scene? As it stands I’m playing it pretty traditionally close to the book (line for line but also because it’s gotta be 10 minutes minimum) but open to fun interpretations as well if they’d work. any fellow hamlosers down to help me out

After seeing your post, I thought I might have already put "Dp version of Hamlet" on my list of possible fics to write, and I HAD lmao! The only thing is, I don't know enough about Hamlet, I'd have to reread the play first. But yeah it's asking to be written.

I have the opposite problem LOL I know the play pretty well but I’ve never actually seen DP, just sort of know what it’s about. Let me know if you do choose to do anything with it though, I’d be more than interested

I walked into Barnes & Noble to see that Prince Hamlet was the cashier and he was trying to sell his autobiography in play form, Hamlet. He didn’t know who Shakespeare is.

I’d like to propose a performance of Hamlet in which the audience is addressed, looked at, and treated as if they were there but ONLY by characters who have gone mad.

in Act 2, when Hamlet’s pretending to go mad, while in the presence of Polonius and others, he sort of pretends to look at the audience, but always glancing over, looking sort of in the wrong direction, putting on a show for the only eyes he thinks are watching. When he’s alone and doing his soliloquies, it’s clear that he’s talking to himself, even though we’re listening in.

And it continues this way until Act 3 Scene 4, when Hamlet runs Polonius through with the sword. For a moment after the deed is done, there’s a shocked silence on the stage. As Hamlet goes to examine the body, he falters, slightly, as he becomes aware of just how many eyes are on him. And slowly; he looks at us, and through the rest of the scene his attention is torn between the audience and his mother, until the ghost appears (perhaps in the audience as well) and he’s… sort of put back on track. But from then on, all his soliloquies, asides, he begins to talk to us, in the audience.

And we notice the change, sure, but we don’t really get what it means, not until Ophelia goes mad, and while onstage she begins to give audience members flowers, to talk to them as the others call her crazy. And at that point most of us can make the connection.

From then until the play is over, Hamlet can’t fully ignore us. Every other character will, and does (besides maybe the gravediggers if you wanted to include anyone else), but we’re ever present in his sight. As he dies, we’re the ones he refers to when he says ‘you that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes or audience to this act’