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Jeremy Funke: For my AP English midterm during my senior year of high school, I had to present an original artistic response, so I presented Hamlet from Hamlet’s point of view. I had three weeks to adapt, direct, produce and star in a two hour version of Hamlet. Then, last semester, my father mentioned this bizarre theory he had about Hamlet. His theory was that the lead player was hired by Horatio to play the role of Hamlet’s father’s ghost, under the assumption that Hamlet would hear the ghost, kill Claudius...
...story ends is different. But Saxo’s story is remarkably the same in the way Horatio describes it, “Carnal, bloody and unnatural acts. Casual slaughters, accidental judgments.” I was reading Saxo’s version and in it, Hamlet had a half brother. I thought it was quite a coincidence, and thought about making Horatio into Hamlet’s half-brother. Suddenly, Horatio’s character made sense; if he is Hamlet’s half-brother, and he is a bastard son, then he can be jealous of Hamlet?...
...title is a line from Hamlet, and it didn’t even occur to me how perfect it was until the new addition of Horatio as Hamlet’s half-brother. It is perfect because no one is telling the truth in the play, except Hamlet and Ophelia. Everyone is presenting a counterfeit to everyone else...
...with a brutal combination of collective punishment for towns and villages that back GAM, and preemptive terror toward everyone else. The result: wide swathes of Aceh have been brutalized since the beginning of the year. Along a 60-km stretch of the main north-south highway of east Aceh, hamlet after hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted. The town of Idi Rayeuk, once home to 15,000, was briefly occupied by GAM fighters in early March. Security forces moved in hours later, and now it is a charred...
Then there was Hamlet. Opening night of the Royal National Theatre’s United States tour brought a full house to the Wilbur Theatre; unfortunately, it brought a quarter of them 15 minutes late. In the middle of Laertes’ first scene with Ophelia, the herd of Americans came traipsing down the aisles like so many elephants, linked trunk to tail. After the requisite bit of coat rustling, umbrella shaking, coughs, sniffs and general settling into seats, the performance was allowed to continue...