Thursday, March 27, 2014

Lesson 16 - "An Act That Blurs the Grace" – The Closet Scene

Consider:
What boy hasn't had a fight with Mom (or any other parental configuration)?

What do you know about Sigmund Freud – or the “Oedipus Complex”?


DISCUSS: Looking at 3.4 --

- What is going on?




- What state is Hamlet in?





- What state is Gertrude in?




- What state is Polonius in?




- How would you present the Ghost?




- How violent would you make Hamlet?



- What would you use for the arras Polonius hides behind?

(Sometimes it is rich, like velvet. A 1989 London production starring Oscar-winner Daniel Day “My Left Lincoln Foot” Lewis used a sheer white curtain that was rigged with special effects drenched with blood at the appropriate time!)

View the following and decide which one would Sigmund Freud like the best? (Sorry to make it uncomfortable, but I shouldn't have to suffer alone with a case of the ick)