So I just got back from an event at Trine - "Breakneck Hamlet" by Tim Mooney. We've talked about it in Creative Writing class some; it's the entire play Hamlet, performed in about an hour's worth of time.
I say performed - it was more like summarized. I'll admit I went in expecting something a little different than what I got. I expected him to actually perform the entire play, speaking the lines and all (which now that I think about it would be a bit much for one person). Don't get me wrong, I didn't dislike it. It was a wonderful way to spend an hour on a Monday evening. It just wasn't exactly what I'd anticipated. I probably would have liked it more if I hadn't actually read Hamlet and didn't know the story ahead of time.
I saw Neriman and Mrs. Homan there. Some of the other writers from my class might have been present as well, somewhere in the auditorium. What did all of you who went think?
I hadn't read the entirety of Hamlet, so for me, it was a great introduction to the story. I have to admit I didn't know all those twists and turns of the plot beforehand. It was fun to see it come to life. I also enjoyed hearing in context all the famous little catchphrases from the play that have entered the vocabulary of our culture ("The lady doth protest too much, methinks," is something I have heard a lot of people say teasingly in conversation, and I actually did not know it was from Hamlet!).
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the Hamlet. But I did enjoyed the play.. Amazing one person did all the play in Hamlet in about hour and fifteen min. He was great. He must have been also very fit to jump up and down many , many times.
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