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...JF: It’s pretty interesting. As far as being on stage, you’re always touring around a lot. When you’re making movies, every tiny slight move you make gets picked up on-screen. So when you’re on-stage, you’re doing a lot bigger, dramatic motions...
...JF: All of the characters that I took from Shakespeare more or less stayed the same, but it’s a smooth transition from my own vaguely Elizabethan lines written in verse to the lines that are clearly Shakespeare. But the lead player required a completely new character, because he has no real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet’s story, a man by the name of Saxo...
...JF: The 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...
...JF: I was very conscious of the fact that a big chunk is from Hamlet, and part of is still very hackneyed, like “Alas, poor Yorick,” and “Get thee to a nunnery,” but these phrases have become so ingrained in our culture that it is hard to look at them differently. I looked at the word, what the characters were thinking and doing, and just let the blocking come from that. In the “To be or not to be” speech...
...JF: I never like the idea of saying this is what I was trying to say. I want the audience to take from it whatever they want. If they come out of it questioning their friendships, then that is a shame. I want them to think about what authorship is, because I don’t think Shakespeare wrote the original Hamlet story, I think the character Hamlet wrote the play Hamlet. I want them to think about their friendships and how people change when they are around different people. And if I can get people to think about Hamlet...