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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 22:05:21 GMT
On a clear day you can see forever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 11:07:48 GMT
Sat in a similar seat. It's fine although the restricted view seats in the stalls are better. As tm says you miss the side of the stage - but anything that goes on there you can see reflected in the glass at the back of the stage.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:27:30 GMT
Those glass panels are incredibly useful, I basically watched an entire exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia in the reflection when the pair of them otherwise disappeared behind columns from my stalls restricted view seat!
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 26, 2017 17:16:45 GMT
I saw this last night and thought it was utterly brilliant. I won't go into that though, because I have a burning question that I need some input on, regarding a particular scene in this production:
*SPOILERS AHEAD*? Possibly?
In this production, right after Claudius' scene with Laertes, there is a scene between Horatio and Gertrude, in which Horatio gives Gertrude the letter from Hamlet, and she realizes the king tried to kill him. As soon as we got to that scene, my ears perked up even more, because I realized I had no memory of seeing that scene in any other production. I took mental note of several specific lines in the scene so I could search for it later. However, I cannot find it in any online text. None of the lines that I remember appear at all when I use the search function, nor can I find any scene between Horatio and Gertrude. DID ROBERT ICKE JUST WRITE THIS SCENE IN?? It sounded like Shakespeare, but it was fairly straightforward in content, so it wouldn't have been too difficult to fake. Or is the scene totally in the text and I'm just completely mistaken? Is it a folio/quarto discrepancy? I thought the scene worked very well actually, but now I'm utterly confused.
*END SPOILER*
If anyone can shed some light on this, I would be so grateful.
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Post by lynette on Mar 26, 2017 18:51:29 GMT
I mentioned this scene earlier in the thread. It is an alternate scene from first quarto ( I think I said that) and I haven't seen it before. It affects the way Gertrude behaves in the cemetery scene as she knows Hamlet is around and also the end as she knows Claudius is even and so.....
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Post by alexandra on Mar 26, 2017 18:53:54 GMT
It's in the First Quarto, sondheimhats. Works here, doesn't it?
I saw this again recently. It's deepened and bedded in beautifully since the opening. It's fascinating, and Scott is now quite, quite stunning. I heard To be or not to be as if for the first time.
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 26, 2017 19:19:46 GMT
Thanks for the responses. Sorry I missed your earlier post lynette. I did a scan through the earlier pages to see if I could find any discussion about it, but I clearly did not look carefully enough.
I've never read any of the quartos - I was always under the (apparently false) impression that the general "full text" of Hamlet (like the one I was looking at online) was already a bit of a mashing together of various quartos and folios, etc. I hadn't thought to look through the quartos individually. Thanks for pointing that out!
I did indeed love the inclusion of the scene. I thought it worked excellently.
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Post by alexandra on Mar 26, 2017 20:11:52 GMT
I didn't identify that scene as coming from Q1 btw. I read it in, I think, Holger Schott Syme's interesting review on his dispositio blog. I recommend this, long though it is.
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Post by lynette on Mar 26, 2017 21:10:27 GMT
Please don't get the impression that I knew what and where that scene was! I had to look it up. I thought it had been made up. I was intrigued because a long while ago in Birmingham and Stratford, making up Shakespeare was commonplace! There was a RII at the Old B'ham Rep with a whole scene written by the director to explain the back story. And I think the Histories were lavishly endowed with new stuff in the '60s. Ah, the good old days.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 26, 2017 21:15:40 GMT
I played Corambis (the equivalent character to Polonius) in a semi-staged reading of the Bad Quarto of Hamlet last year - and the scene between Horatio and Gertred was the only one that really shone a new light on the story.
It makes Gertrude's journey in Act 5 far more interesting.
I used to be a big fan of the Bad Quarto - but having now performed it, I never want to see it again. But the Horatio/Gertrude scene deserves to be saved.
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Post by Rory on Mar 27, 2017 6:08:48 GMT
Transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre. June 9 - Sept 3
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Post by Kenneth_C on Mar 27, 2017 14:30:28 GMT
Transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre. June 9 - Sept 3 Then it is "not to be" for me.  Would love for NTLive to broadcast it, but I think that's unlikely. They have the Barbican/Cumberbatch monstrosity on repeat, and seem to have relegated the superior NT/Kinnear to the archives. I doubt they will see the need to have a third Hamlet in their stable. |
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 27, 2017 15:16:36 GMT
Almeida could broadcast it on its own rights like it did with Richard Ш. But they'd announced it by now, I guess...
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 28, 2017 9:20:23 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 9:22:16 GMT
That was a dream.
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 28, 2017 9:23:44 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? Nope, he's not in it - though he was in a scene from the play, performed at the National Theatre 50th Anniversary Gala! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 9:26:50 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? Nope, he's not in it - though he was in a scene from the play, performed at the National Theatre 50th Anniversary Gala! I know Moriarty is everywhere but he'd struggle to be doing 4 hours of Hamlet and rehearsing for that!
(But no, that was the him and Dominic Cooper 50th Anniversary extract. Andrew Garfield is playing Prior, that Scott did in that...too many Andrews about clearly...)
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Post by alexandra on Mar 28, 2017 9:55:59 GMT
Though Garfield and Nathan Lane were at the Almeida the other day, seeing Re-member me, rather than Hamlet.
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 28, 2017 10:32:02 GMT
Have I got Andrew Scott and Andrew Garfield mixed up and merged the two?
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Post by Snciole on Mar 28, 2017 11:55:01 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? I thought this too but as others have said he did the anniversary extract and his name is Andrew so I think we have both been victims of The Mandela Effect. I could have sworn Scott was announced as being cast when the first casting (pre-Nathan Lane announcment?) happened. I do dream a lot though. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 11:58:47 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? I thought this too but as others have said he did the anniversary extract and his name is Andrew so I think we have both been victims of The Mandela Effect. I could have sworn Scott was announced as being cast when the first casting (pre-Nathan Lane announcment?) happened. I do dream a lot though. Nah it was always Garfield- I was watching like a hawk and if I'm honest hoping for the NT 50 combination to be what we got (I'm sure Garfield will be fabulous too though) |
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Post by Snciole on Mar 28, 2017 12:02:55 GMT
I think I just wanted lots of sexy people in it so came up with a cast I wanted, not what I deserved.
Though Mateo Oxley has a supporting role and he's the sexiest of them all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 12:41:10 GMT
I think I just wanted lots of sexy people in it so came up with a cast I wanted, not what I deserved. Though Mateo Oxley has a supporting role and he's the sexiest of them all. Well, he's understudying Prior, and the piece was traditionally written for a smaller ensemble than the NT have thrown at it with a lot of doubling, so I don't know if you should count on him necessarily having a lot to do. But hey, if you're going at a similar time to when I'm going and you want to collaborate on a plan to harmlessly take Garfield out of action for a couple of days, just let me know.  |
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