Hamlet

To be or not to be...whatever

    Probably, my favorite part of Hamlet staged by National Theatre Live was at the beginning when Hamlet was listening to Nature Boy sung by Nat King Cole on his record player. It set the period and tone of the piece. It also reminded me of me.

    I remember sitting in high school English class and talking about Hamlet. Something about iambic pentameter, Shakespeare...blah, blah, blah. Now I get it.

    Benedict Cumberbatch is great.  To be honest, if it weren't for Dr. Strange I may not have gone to see the Fathom Event at all. (Shush, tell no one.)

    Sian Brooke is just annoying as Ophelia. I mean, pick a twitch and just stick to it. 

    Ciaran Hinds is as cantankerous as Claudius in Hamlet as he was as Big Daddy when I saw him in 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' on Broadway.

    The lady dost need a tissue, methinks. Please, someone give Gertrude (Anastasia Hill) a handkerchief. I loathe disingenuousness.

 

   The play's the thing.






  

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