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And finally, here in the midst of "posting day," a brief post in line with what this whole blog was supposed to be about in the first place.
So, Ian W. Hill's Hamlet proceeds apace. Tomorrow and Monday evening I have four hours set up (on each day) to meet with and read people for various roles. I have 15 actors scheduled, and am waiting to hear back from another 2 if they can make it, and I have to make separate arrangements with one person who definitely can't make it.
These are all people I've worked with before (except for one) and I could cast the play four or five different excellent ways with them. I'm lucky.
I need to work on myself and my performance some more now. I'm going to start experimenting with hair colors as soon as I can, but I have to borrow a digital camera from someone so I can share with you the various stages I go through there.
I have also started the "Hamlet Exercise Regimen" on top of the dieting I've been doing for a few months. Now, every day, an hour of Dance Dance Revolution, ten minutes of situps, and as many pushups and deep knee bends as I can do. Can I lose, oh say, 60 pounds by the time we open in June? Probably, and I'm sure as hell going to try (well, I'm trying for 80, but that's . . . unlikely).
Currently cast: Hamlet (me), Horatio (Rasheed Hinds), Polonius (Bryan Enk), Rosencrantz (Daniel McKleinfeld), Guildenstern (Edward Einhorn). 13 more needed. Looking good.
Now to add in the memorization regimen every day . . . I'd love to be off-book before the first rehearsal. I should be. I'll try.
So, Ian W. Hill's Hamlet proceeds apace. Tomorrow and Monday evening I have four hours set up (on each day) to meet with and read people for various roles. I have 15 actors scheduled, and am waiting to hear back from another 2 if they can make it, and I have to make separate arrangements with one person who definitely can't make it.
These are all people I've worked with before (except for one) and I could cast the play four or five different excellent ways with them. I'm lucky.
I need to work on myself and my performance some more now. I'm going to start experimenting with hair colors as soon as I can, but I have to borrow a digital camera from someone so I can share with you the various stages I go through there.
I have also started the "Hamlet Exercise Regimen" on top of the dieting I've been doing for a few months. Now, every day, an hour of Dance Dance Revolution, ten minutes of situps, and as many pushups and deep knee bends as I can do. Can I lose, oh say, 60 pounds by the time we open in June? Probably, and I'm sure as hell going to try (well, I'm trying for 80, but that's . . . unlikely).
Currently cast: Hamlet (me), Horatio (Rasheed Hinds), Polonius (Bryan Enk), Rosencrantz (Daniel McKleinfeld), Guildenstern (Edward Einhorn). 13 more needed. Looking good.
Now to add in the memorization regimen every day . . . I'd love to be off-book before the first rehearsal. I should be. I'll try.
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I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-23 08:19 pm (UTC)From:Is this going to be one of those really physical Hamlets, like the one I saw decades ago at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where during the "What a piece of work is a man" bit, H used R or G to demonstrate each bit, finally riding him piggyback around the stage?
Re: I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-23 08:47 pm (UTC)From:But the part is demanding. I could DO it, but I would be laid up, recovering, for a good deal of the following day. I'll be turning 39 during the run, and I'm . . . not in the best of shape. I played the actually somewhat more demanding role of Marlowe's Faustus 15 years ago, when I was in some of the best condition I've ever been, and it wrecked me pretty good then.
Also, while my conception of Hamlet is, of course, based around my own burly self (and has been for the 18 years I've been thinking about this show), and there is good precedent for a "fat" Hamlet, I'm fatter than I want my Hamlet to be. Portly? Fine. Obese? Not so fine.
It's also a damned good excuse to force myself to get in better shape in general, as I should be. I can't rationalize myself another bit of fatty food when I'm thinking "Fat Hamlet. Fat Hamlet."
Re: I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-23 08:58 pm (UTC)From:But yeah, I could imagine a fat Hamlet, a totally spoilt brat. Ophelia's motivation would be a challenge, unless she was similar. Maybe they could be goths?
Re: I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-23 09:02 pm (UTC)From:Re: I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-24 03:17 am (UTC)From:In the whole presenting-the-plants scene, instead of real herbs or (as is often done) random weeds, she's throwing down pill bottles that break open on the floor.
Re: I guess sweats and Shakes go together?
Date: 2007-03-23 09:06 pm (UTC)From:"Oh that this too, too empty mug would fill . . ."
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Date: 2007-03-23 09:04 pm (UTC)From:i've never tried it ... i want to !
Dance Dance Hamlet
Date: 2007-03-23 09:14 pm (UTC)From:We're not exactly big videogamers, but our friends Daniel and Sally McKleinfeld are, and got us into it at their parties. So Berit asked for a PS2 and DDR for Xmas, and she got it.
So we got some spare pads (they break quickly, we're told, though our original pad is doing okay still) and every day we clear the living room and stomp around, trying to keep the cats of the pads (we thought the stomping would be enough; it's not).
It is indeed great fun - a form of physical exertion I actually enjoy great and will push myself further at. Just what I needed.