Longing to Blink.
A big thank you t'all who have come to see the show thus far. Performing for a house is nicer than an empty auditorium. I've been thinking that I wish there were more shows. I'm actually curious as to how it would have played out in the poorly conceptualized Studio Theatre at Cambrian. Besides, I doubt rather seriously that I'll get the chance to play this role again and the selfish part of me wants more people to see me. But it's such a great cast and crew that nothing can really spoil this. I think it's safe to say that if I'm never in another play again I will have no regrets about my last show.
So, you who have seen the play... what did you think?
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p.s. I just realized that St. Paddy's day has come and gone and not a drop of Guiness has touched these lips. I feel so unsatisfied. Maybe I could go out for a pint today and just claim that St. Paddy's has become too commercial and that's my rebellion.
posted by Phinneas Q Jacksmith @ 1:52 a.m.
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Dear Andrew,
What I liked most about your Hamlet was the sense that you were inhabiting him rather than just reciting the lines in a fresh way. What I mean is, you were not "Andrew being Hamlet being funny" or "Andrew being Hamlet being bleak"; the dialogue came out of you as if you were thinking and engaging with the environment. Your Hamlet was therefore witty and sharp not because he had all the best lines fed to him, but because he was fully capable of thinking them up on the spot. He is a thoughtful fellow, after all, and I was impressed to see that rendered well.
That may sound like an obvious compliment, but one of the problems I had with, say, Branaugh's Hamlet, was the sense of "Ooooh! I'm doing the big scene now!" that he brought to the table. There, you know it's a play by Shakespeare, and you know this man knows it inside out. Good for him, you think (or I do, anyway), but it's a little chilly for the audience, and the effect is ultimately one of being impressed as hell by something that seems, at heart, to be an artefact.
Your Hamlet seemed not to have read the play but to be active in making it is what I'm trying to say, I think, and good on you for pulling that off.
I hope that makes sense.
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