The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0150  Wednesday, 31 March 2010

[1]  From:      Adrian Kiernander < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

     Date:      March 30, 2010 12:41:12 PM EDT

     Subj:      Re: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets

[2]  From:      Donald Bloom < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

     Date:      March 30, 2010 1:19:23 PM EDT

     Subj:      RE: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets

[3]  From:      David Frankel < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

     Date:      March 30, 2010 1:29:29 PM EDT

     Subj:      Re: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets 

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From:         Adrian Kiernander < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         March 30, 2010 12:41:12 PM EDT

Subject: 21.0141  Double Hamlets

Comment:      Re: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets

I can't add any information about multiple Hamlets, but I was involved last year in a production of Richard III with no Richard. (We focused on the other characters who are often ignored or even cut altogether, especially the women. Richard was just an offstage presence.)

Adrian

Adrian Kiernander 

Professor of Theatre Studies

University of New England 

AUSTRALIA 

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From:         Donald Bloom < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         March 30, 2010 1:19:23 PM EDT

Subject: 21.0141  Double Hamlets

Comment:      RE: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets

Stephen Buhler writes:

In Celestino Coronada's experimental filmed *Hamlet* (1976), twins Tony Meyer and David Meyer play both Hamlet and Laertes. The production also features Quentin Crisp as Polonius and Helen Mirren as both Gertrude and Ophelia.

Just as a matter of curiosity, how did Mirren play both parts during the mad scenes?

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From:         David Frankel < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         March 30, 2010 1:29:29 PM EDT

Subject: 21.0141  Double Hamlets

Comment:      Re: SHK 21.0141  Double Hamlets

Not exactly Hamlet, but Hamlet ESP, produced at the Dallas Theatre Center in 1971, splits Hamlet into three.

cdf

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