WEEK THREE

Today we performed an improvised run through of the entire play. This was with our scripts in our hands as we hadn't learnt the lines yet so the piece was very make shift.

With this rehearsal I figured out a few things for my character. I need to figure out Hamlets physical demeanor. I need to work out how Hamlet would stand in a room full of people as opposed to on his own.

Hamlet is a very different person when on his own than when with others. With others he is  physically stilted in a way that screams 'get away from me' or that he is exceptionally cautious of other individuals. His relationship with every other character is all distrusting except the ghost of his father.

Relationships:

King Hamlets Ghost: During scene two he has a whirlwind of emotion rushing through him. His memories of his childhood flood back to him as the physical embodiment of his grief stands before him.  Throughout the entire play I will use Jake (King Hamlet) as my reference for grief.

Laertes: I never truly trusted Laertes. Hamlet always knew he was easily deceived. When Hamlet confronts Laertes about playing a pipe, it is in effort of physically intimidating him, knowing full well he cannot play.

Polonius: Hamlet seems Polonius as rather annoying and a bit of an inconvenience. He is a bit of idiotic person in his view. When Polonius meets Hamlet in scene 11, Hamlet takes great delight in teasing him about a cloud, knowing fully that he would go along with it because he is the Prince of Denmark. This is particularly brutal and embarrassing as he decides  to do it in front of Polonius' son.

Claudius: Hamlet feels absolute hate towards Claudius. That and pity. Pity in the fact that how can someone become such a beast and lose all humanity. Most of all he feels a sense of vengeance.

With Characters I don't Act With

Ophelia: I love Ophelia with all my heart despite mistreating her. She is the one thing Hamlet never truly meant to hurt. Her death destroys Hamlet and pushes him over the edge - the final straw.

Gertrude: I loved her once, maybe there is  a slight hint at me still loving her but I'm so rife with anger that she's almost dead to me. I can't stand what she did and it causes me to act in a rather nonhuman, animalistic way.

Gravediggers: The gravediggers will the be the physical personification of death. Throughout the play, when I notice them, Hamlet will feel very on edge. But towards the end, I become gradually more comfortable with their presence.

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