Sunday, November 6, 2011

How does this sound to enact Hamlet's Yorick Speech?

It's good that you've made some physical and vocal choices about your performance. Now take some time to think about Hamlet's state of mind as he says these words. He's at the graveyard for his girlfriend's funeral. She has killed herself after he rejected her. Also, he (unintentionally) killed her father, which helped drive her to suicide. He's still mourning his own father's death and dealing with the fact that his father's ghost has twice appeared to him urging him to murder his uncle. Death is very much on his mind. Seeing and handling the skull reminds him of how brief human life is. It probably makes him think a bit about his own mortality. Plus, he was very fond of Yorick, who used to play with him and entertain him when he was just a boy and his father was still alive. Keep all of that in mind and let the emotional truth of the moment come through in your voice and body language.

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