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Tealin ([personal profile] tealin) wrote 2016-05-23 06:01 am (UTC)

This is my Definitive Hamlet: http://www.imdb.com/video/withoutabox/vi147915545?ref_=nmvi_vi_imdb_1 Every other Hamlet I see or hear, now, is just wrong. Which is a shame as this may be my favourite play and I may not be able to enjoy it ever again, but I wouldn't give up having seen this* production for the world; it blew my mind and made me properly fall in love with Shakespeare (or with what Shakespeare can be...)

*This clip is off a DVD recorded a couple years before the production I saw; some things got further refined or reinterpreted in the meantime ('To be or not to be...' for example) and the DVD hacks the play down to 70-odd minutes and shoots it abominably, but it's some small record of the amazingness of that Hamlet and some of the cast. Sigh ...


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