![]() ![]() "When you trim that intervening scene, you go from one of the richest speeches-one about the art of acting, after all-to one of the most famous. There's a scene that follows that's often cut, but then the next contains the `To be or not to be' soliloquy. Hamlet meets the (traveling) players and gives his `rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy. "There are two purple patches close together, for instance, beginning in the second scene in Act II. That can actually do the actor performing the title role a disservice. ![]() They don't take artificial pauses to let the audience know some lines have been cut."īranagh also felt most trimmed versions zero in on Hamlet in a drama where he is already unmistakably a center. ![]() It's as if, by being allowed to play the scenes completely, actors aren't afraid to throw lines away, as it were, to move the text along. And often, because key lines are cut, actors play scenes longer than they otherwise would. It causes a not very helpful intensity, and it's exhausting to play. "Having seen various incomplete versions on stage, I find what happens is that it's harder to follow because a lot of the set pieces are artificially yoked together. "I've watched the complete version in the theater, and I feel it moves quicker and is easier to take in. Paradoxically, Branagh insists the result should seem to play more quickly. ![]()
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