Hamlet2001 *
2008 -- RG

The courtroom and the party (drinks).

Testimonials, the podium. Road signs -- Hell, Paradise (left, right. The Dante's diagram of Hell on the screen. Lazer pointer.

Should the actors be on the platform? The chorus in the orchestra pit!

HamletDreams Poster by Kade Mendelowitz, set and light designer

Set

Summary

Questions

Notes

GodotUAF

Stoppard'08

images

Hamlet Set

Shakespeare & Beckett (Godot - 2006)
Monitors, posters. How do we enter the space of Hamlet (tragedy)?

The door-gate, bed, coffin... to another world. 

Ham.
I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.--What wilt thou do for her?
Act V, Scene i (Hamlet and Laertes fight in the casket; all three of them are there!

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Heaven

Purgatory

Hell

DanteMap

[ this production should be done in Lab space! ]

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Public

[ What was wrong with the King? He never was around -- Halet doen't remember him. His father was at war. Over what? He killed Fortinbras for a few acres of land in Poland. What was good about him? He was good for Danmark. ]

NB

The Family Album -- the past on video?

The organ (Bach) and the Latin prayer.