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Hamlet scenes for performance

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Top Scenes 2012

Honorable Mention


Honorable Mention


Honorable Mention


Best Performance

 

Sign up for a scene here:

 

For 1

1.2.133-164: Hamlet criticizes his mother's hasty marriage.

1.5.14-31: The Ghost identifies himself and reveals how he died.

3.1.64-96: To be or not to be...

 

For 2

2.2.187-237: Hamlet and Polonius have a strange conversation.

3.2.119-175: Hamlet and Ophelia talk before the play.

4.3: Claudius demands to know where Hamlet has stowed Polonius's body.

 

 

For 3

1.1.1-80: Marcellus, Barnardo, and Horatio see the ghost and are amazed.

3.4.1-86: Polonius eavesdrops on Hamlet and Gertrude. Bad move.

 

For 4

4.5.1-79: The mad Ophelia

5.1.120-202: The gravediggers and Hamlet

5.1.254-319: Opehlia's funeral

5.2.277-358: The fencing match

5.2.364-449: Hamlet's death; Fortinbras takes the throne.

 

What an A looks like:

  • The prologue explains the significance of the scene to the work as a whole.
  • All of the players know  their lines, but some prompting is acceptable.
  • The players have thought about their characters-- how they say what they say, how they react to what is said to them, and what they might be doing while all of this is going on.
  • The players are aware of the dramatic nature of the scene-- what's at stake, what the problem is, and what characters are trying to accomplish in the scene.
  • The sets and costuming (or lack of them) contribute to the drama appropriately.
  • Good actors are committed to the scene and demonstrate that commitment through the energy they bring to the performance. 

 

Senior Project

  • Your character should be one of the "leads" in the scene.
  • Your lines should be memorized. 
  • You should have a lead role in directing the scene.

 

 

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