Word: ehs
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...EH: Well, I wasn't interested in playing Hamlet just for the sake of playing [him]. It wouldn't really interest me. But Michael had a real idea for the production as a whole, and that's what kind of excited me, to be a part of a production. You don't really want to just see "this person" say those lines. You want to be part of a production and that's what was so exciting about it, the rest of the cast. Shakespeare draws so many interesting people. Basically, your reaction is just to say "yes". What...
...EH: What you're saying about "warrants" a production, that's what is so amazing about Shakespeare, the ideas and the themes, they're still so relevant. As a performer what's interesting is to think "if Hamlet were alive today, who would he be?". Let's say he's the son of the CEO of Time Warner, you've got millions of dollars at your hands, and everyone wants you to go into big business. The metaphor is very easily adaptable. In Denmark, Hamlet's being shoved into war, they want him to lead a country into a battle...
...EH: Shakespeare attracts all kinds of interesting people. Like Diane Venora, who played Gertrude in a production of Hamlet last December...
...Diane had also played Hamlet in her twenties, and also played Ophelia with Kevin Klein onstage, so she knew the play better than anyone. EH: She was a great resource, in three different capacities. She was Clare Danes' mother in _Romeo + Juliet...
...EH: Actually, I hadn't really thought of it. I mean, I played them both, and I look pretty much the same...