The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0121 Sunday, 24 February 2008
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 16:29:28 -0500
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 22:03:39 -0000
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:58 +0000
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 23:35:16 -0500
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Date: Thursday, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:32 -0000
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Date: Thursday, 21 Feb 2008 10:32:55 -0600 (CST)
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Date: Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 01:54:35 -0800
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From: Cheryl Newton <
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 16:29:28 -0500
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Campbell Scott, hands down. He also co-directs; the cast includes Jamey
Sheridan, John Benjamin Hickey, and Lisa Gaye Hamilton. Approx running
time 3 hrs.
Close second "Hamlet by Brook," starring Adrian Lester. It's a tight
cut, 132 minutes.
Both are unusual in having multiracial casts. In Scott's production,
Polonius & family are black. In Brook's production, Hamlet, father,
Claudius are black. Ophelia & family are east Indian. Gertrude is Anglo,
& Horatio is the whitest white boy you'll ever see. I think it was set
up as a deliberate visual contrast with Hamlet. They do play the parts
with physical affection that is withheld from R&G.
(Want a review of the manga Hamlet?!)
Cheryl Newton
Except for the actor's name, I would've insisted from appearance that
Laertes was Hispanic/Native Am
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From: John Briggs <
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 22:03:39 -0000
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Peter Bridgman wrote:
>Of Benedict Nightingale's top 10 Hamlets, Mark Rylance and Alex
>Jennings were both 40 when they played the part, Simon Russell Beale
>was 39, Stephen Dillane was 38, Michael Pennington was 37, Samuel
>West was 35, Jonathan Pryce was 34, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes
>were both 33, and Kenneth Branagh was 32.
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>I expect the Wittenberg course was post-grad.
And Richard Burbage was 32, of course.
John Briggs
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From: Herman Gollob <
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:58 +0000
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Jacobi's Hamlet on BBC-DVD is splendid, second only to Rylance's. I was
lucky enough to see his performance at the Globe in 2000; the production
itself was up to that time the most thrilling rendition of any
Shakespearean drama I'd seen (I wrote about it extensively in ME AND
SHAKESPEARE; Adventures with the Bard). But Patrick Stewart's MACBETH
matched it in theatrical power and inventiveness, including the most
ingenious staging of the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow soliloquy
one can imagine.
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From: Larry Weiss <
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Date: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 23:35:16 -0500
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
What about Richard Burbage, who was 32 in 1600 and is said to have
weighed 16 stn. Of the modern actors, Simon Russell Beale comes closest.
By the way, the latter actor's last name is "Russell Beale," not "Beale."
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From: David Lindley <
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Date: Thursday, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:32 -0000
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: RE: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Surprising, perhaps, that David Warner's Hamlet hasn't been mentioned?
It certainly hit the spot with this, then teenaged, member of the
audience - but perhaps that's also the problem with it?
David Lindley
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From: Tom Reedy <
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Date: Thursday, 21 Feb 2008 10:32:55 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: The Best Hamlet
Am I the only one who saw Campbell Scott's 2001 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV
production of Hamlet? I think his interpretation much superior to any of
the others named that I've seen.
Tom Reedy
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From: Robert Projansky <
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Date: Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 01:54:35 -0800
Subject: 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0114 The Best Hamlet
The only British actors I have seen play Hamlet have all been on film or
video, so I have no idea whose is best, but I do know whose is the
worst. I cannot imagine anyone recording or sitting through, beginning
to end, a worse performance than Nicol Williamson's. After a very few
minutes you want to see his head off, no shriving time allowed. Ugh.
Best to all,
Bob Projansky
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