Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0714. Tuesday, 5 September 1994.
(1) From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 1994
Subj: Apologies
(2) From: Pedro Rubim de Pinho Accioli Doria <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 3 Sep 1994 19:23:30 -0300
Subj: Re: SHK 5.0712 "Nude" Hamlet
(3) From: Ken Colston <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 05 Sep 94 13:20:17 EDT
Subj: Ralph Finnes on Tour in Hamlet
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From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 1994
Subject: Apologies
My apologies to Carey Cummings <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> for misattributing her
posting about the "Nude" Hamlet.
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From: Pedro Rubim de Pinho Accioli Doria <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 3 Sep 1994 19:23:30 -0300
Subject: 5.0712 "Nude" Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 5.0712 "Nude" Hamlet
If there's interest on nude Hamlet reviews I'd like to share with you my
appointments on "Ham-Let" staged by director Jose' Celso Martinez Correa in Rio
de Janeiro and Sao Paulo/Brazil.
(1) Ham-Let is a 5 hour play, divided in three acts (instead of the original
five).
(2) There are plenty of nude scenes, even an almost-explicit sex one (between
Claudius and Gertrude as King Hamlet's ghost talks to his son on the beginning
of Act I).
As an actor, I don't see any problem on nudes; as a director I rather not use
them. Yet, I've heard about some Midsummer Night Dream's stagings that were
extremely poetic on these. It is not the case of Ham-let. Most actors are
simply bad actors (that includes Hamlet himself). The homosexual relationship
between the prince and Horatio is exposed on a shocking (and unnecessary)
half-a-minute kiss. Hamlet strips off his pants and walk around the stage on
his shirt for a while...
Yet there is one single scene which is extremely beautiful, the one of
Ophelia's suicide. On a white see-through dress she falls into a pool (it's an
open air presentation) singing. For some moments there's a tender mood on the
audience. Then, two men jump desperate on the pool, they yell a little. It is
terror we see on their eyes. One of them comes back with dead Ophelia on his
arms.
It's a pity that on a five-hour play this is the only shot I'll keep on notes.
The show simply isn't worth it.
Anyone interested on more details on this, simply send me a mail. I'd be glad
to help with newspaper reviews and other comments. There's been a lot of
talking about Ham-Let around here.
Pedro R. Doria
Director to "Nos Enquanto Eles" group
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From: Ken Colston <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 05 Sep 94 13:20:17 EDT
Subject: Ralph Finnes on Tour in Hamlet
I have heard that Ralph Finnes is/will be on tour playing Hamlet in the United
States. Does anyone know company and the schedule?
