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Post by rosekitten on Dec 10, 2016 10:17:41 GMT
I love Shakespeare, so i'm really looking forward to it and i agree hamlet should be played young like he is in the play. it's going to be brilliant!
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Post by muckypup on Dec 10, 2016 10:46:42 GMT
I admit Hamlet has never been my favourite play. But what intrigues me here is what Alex says in the press release: "my fundamental belief that Hamlet should be played young - as he is in the play" This sounds like Scott & Alex put a bit of a new spin on it and that gets me all excited! If my memory serves me correctly, hamlet is about 30......hardly young & and late middle age for the life expectancy of the day. he is not young! just a spoils sheltered selfish man.
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Post by chopper on Dec 10, 2016 10:48:58 GMT
I love Barnaby Edwards, but I really can't envision him as the ghost. Be interesting to see what he does with that.
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Post by kimalysong on Dec 10, 2016 10:52:02 GMT
I admit Hamlet has never been my favourite play. But what intrigues me here is what Alex says in the press release: "my fundamental belief that Hamlet should be played young - as he is in the play" This sounds like Scott & Alex put a bit of a new spin on it and that gets me all excited! If my memory serves me correctly, hamlet is about 30......hardly young & and late middle age for the life expectancy of the day. he is not young! just a spoils sheltered selfish man. His age is not all that clear cut www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/hamlet/hamletsage.htmlBut Alex is 28 so the perfect age to play the role.
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Post by muckypup on Dec 10, 2016 10:57:49 GMT
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays and Hamlet is a complex and wonderful role and a dream job for many actors. I never think there is too many times to do any Shakespeare or any Classic Adaptions. And I love that Big Finish is branching out this way. Shakespeare will be great on audio. The entire cast is terrific and I can't wait to hear this. I deleted most of post, cause I thought If you cannot say anything nice etc. but I really do think you can have too much. I hope it it is as brilliant as you all hope.....but not for me perhaps too much time studying it at school, but give me twelfth night, King Lear or Macbeth over hamlet or Romeo & Juliet any day
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 11:00:46 GMT
I admit Hamlet has never been my favourite play. But what intrigues me here is what Alex says in the press release: "my fundamental belief that Hamlet should be played young - as he is in the play" This sounds like Scott & Alex put a bit of a new spin on it and that gets me all excited! If my memory serves me correctly, hamlet is about 30......hardly young & and late middle age for the life expectancy of the day. he is not young! just a spoils sheltered selfish man. The gravedigger who gives us the thirty year figure does indeed imply he has had his job since the day Hamlet was born and later says he's been in service for thirty years but there's been a lot of debate that the grammatical interpretation from the original text means the gravedigger referring to being in Denmark for thirty years rather than his court appointed position. We do know Hamlet is still being educated as a student so is still of an age to be schooled. The Ghost tells Hamlet that to tell him of what happens after death would “freeze thy young blood" and calls Hamlet "the noble youth". Laertes also refers to him as “A violet in the youth of primy nature” so there's plenty of evidence that 30 is not the intention...and evidence that it is. Regardless there's enough of the former to show that playing Hamlet as youthful is a perfectly valid interpretation.
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Post by chrisscorkscrew on Dec 10, 2016 11:03:16 GMT
I'm a huge Shakespeare buff and this is really exciting. Quite often, Shakespeare audio adaptations can be stilted and polite (I'm looking at you, BBC). I'm desperately hoping that this has the visceral and immediate Big Finish touch.
Fingers crossed that this is the start of a series of Shakespeare releases. Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar would be fabulous as Big Finish audios...
Chriss C.
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Post by muckypup on Dec 10, 2016 11:06:40 GMT
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays and Hamlet is a complex and wonderful role and a dream job for many actors. I never think there is too many times to do any Shakespeare or any Classic Adaptions. And I love that Big Finish is branching out this way. Shakespeare will be great on audio. The entire cast is terrific and I can't wait to hear this. For those who aren't interested no one is forcing anyone to buy it but I am sure there are plenty of Big Finish fans who will look forward to this. I agree 100%. While subjectively someone might not like Hamlet, the Classics range isn't a huge seller at its best so the releases have to be the big hitters that appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. That's not going to happen with Gentlemen Of Verona or Merrie Wives Of Windsor which are relatively obscure to the public at large - despite being wonderful plays - so going with Hamlet makes commercial sense AND crucially it seems a perfect part for Alex. Shakespeare already is great on audio, as you guessed, the BBC have a long and illustrious back-catalogue of adaptations which can be found very easily. I'm sure there are hundreds of non-Beeb versions too so anyone underwhelmed doesn't have a shortage of other options to hear the bard on audio. Pup went on a bit of a rant which I see is now edited so my points not as clearly directed as it was but I think it still stands. Besides, if it does well perhaps we'll get a Shakespeare range. Tom Baker as Falstaff anyone? Yep Saturday morning, rant reading back sounded far worse than was meant, so edited it. dont get me wrong, I like Shakespeare (spent long enough reading it in 6th form) just don't want yet another version/re-imagining.
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Post by kimalysong on Dec 10, 2016 11:09:56 GMT
Well keep in mind if this is a success they could possibly do more Shakespeare.
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Post by muckypup on Dec 10, 2016 11:10:26 GMT
If my memory serves me correctly, hamlet is about 30......hardly young & and late middle age for the life expectancy of the day. he is not young! just a spoils sheltered selfish man. The gravedigger who gives us the thirty year figure does indeed imply he has had his job since the day Hamlet was born and later says he's been in service for thirty years but there's been a lot of debate that the grammatical interpretation from the original text means the gravedigger referring to being in Denmark for thirty years rather than his court appointed position. We do know Hamlet is still being educated as a student so is still of an age to be schooled. The Ghost tells Hamlet that to tell him of what happens after death would “freeze thy young blood" and calls Hamlet "the noble youth". Laertes also refers to him as “A violet in the youth of primy nature” so there's plenty of evidence that 30 is not the intention...and evidence that it is. Regardless there's enough of the former to show that playing Hamlet as youthful is a perfectly valid interpretation. Yep remember it now, the gravedigger is the one who mentions it, thanks for putting me right
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 11:56:51 GMT
An interesting release. I know the story well enough so I won't jump on it now, but I will wait and see what the general reaction and feedback is once it's released.
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Post by pawntake on Dec 10, 2016 13:34:59 GMT
To buy? or not to buy? That is the question !!!!
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Post by kimalysong on Dec 10, 2016 13:57:39 GMT
To buy? or not to buy? That is the question !!!! To thine own self be true..
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Post by kimalysong on Dec 10, 2016 14:40:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 15:57:22 GMT
To buy? or not to buy? That is the question !!!! To thine own self be true.. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Post by constonks on Dec 10, 2016 16:04:02 GMT
Aha we were discussing this over at the Confessions of Dorian Gray board but it probably is more appropriate here. Ahhh makes sense. Someone could probably merge the threads.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Dec 10, 2016 16:30:36 GMT
One of those pieces of news that is surprising but not surprising. Miles Richardson is just about the most "right" piece of casting I can imagine. That said, I own several recordings of Hamlet and I honestly don't know if I need another.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Dec 10, 2016 16:48:11 GMT
I'll likely get this, but I'll hold off for a few days at least, if my car repair costs less than I anticipate I'll do the preorder next week as gift to my nerves. If the car doesn't let me off lightly, then I'll wait until early in the new year.
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Post by pawntake on Dec 10, 2016 19:07:47 GMT
To buy? or not to buy? That is the question !!!! To thine own self be true.. Ay, theres the rub,
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Post by omega on Dec 10, 2016 22:30:37 GMT
On the Facebook comment section for the post announcing this:
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