And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any one.
There's a reason it's "above all else"
and there's a reason it's become a cliche.
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Jason Liebman and Gabriele Schafer
A play/production notebook created by the actress playing 'gertred'/the ghost.
About the Production
A Dillon/Liebman/Schafer Production in Association with New World Theatre
First produced by New World Theatre in July of 2006.
Brick Theater's Pretentious Festival 2007:
Wed 6/20 @ 8:30pm
Thu 6/21 @ 8:30pm
Sat 6/23 @ 7:30pm
Wed 6/27 @ 9pm
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Reviews:
2006 production
2007 nytheatre.com
Photo: QuinnChandler.com
Jason Liebman and Gabriele Schafer
Cast/Crew and Description
Leartes, Gilderstone, Marcellus -- Anthony Bagnetto
Horatio, First Player, Voltemar, Fortenbrasse --
Robert Josef
Hamlet, Player Duke --
Jason Liebman
Corambis, Bernardo, Clown #1 -- Kevin Lind
Ofelia, Clown #2, Rossencraft -- Alyssa Mann
King, First Sentinel, Montano, Gentleman, Player Lucianus -- Thomas Poarch
Gertred/Ghost, Player Duchess -- Gabriele Schafer
Director: Cynthia Dillon
Fight Director: Al Foote III
AD/SM: Meghan Dickerson
Ghost Choreographer: Nick Fracaro
It could be an early draft by the bard or it could be a blatant rip-off, but throughout history it has been called the “bad quarto.” This fast-paced, action-packed production proves that “it ain’t necessarily so!” Half the length of the better-known play, this version crystallizes the famous story of murder, madness, love and betrayal. It is performed by an agile ensemble of 7 actors playing multiple roles, including the actress playing Hamlet’s mother doubling as a “butoh” inspired Ghost of Hamlet’s father. Performed uncut, this is a great version of one of the greatest of plays!
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- Corambis
- Or put another way...
- To thy own self be true
- Letter from Kathleen Irace
- And yet more Ghost
- Your Loves
- A Closer Look at "Honest(y)"
- Arden
- Croaking Raven Doth Bellow for Revenge
- O Jephthah Judge of Israel
- From Dry Dirt to Ghost
- Butoh-Fu
- About Q1
- Exposure
- RSC
- HQ1 PR Image
- Butoh Ghost
- Soul food
- To read or not to read
- Letter to Kathleen Irace
- The King Responds...
- meeting and read-through
- Pretentious Questionnaire Answers
- The King and I
- A Good King Gone Bad
- Hamlet's Age
- TCOB
- Soliloquies and more
- Seeing is believing...
- Undiscovered Country
- The Ghost III
- For Real
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5 comments:
So what's the reason it is "Above all else"? And what's the reason its become a cliche? Just tonight I saw a young girl with "To Thy Own Self Be True" tattooed on the side of her waist.
I don't see how it has become cliché, after all it has always been a self explanatory phrase quoted by Shakespeare of whom some may have been inspired by hence the young girl's tattoo. People get tattoos in most cases that have meaning and that mean something to them. Perhaps Shakespeare’s quote "to thy own self be true" has inspired the girl. By getting a tattoo does not make the girl untrue to herself.
It ain't "thy", it's "thine" y'all.
Dah-hyuck!
And here's the girl:
exgfpics(dot)com/blog/
fl/2518/7.html
Ironic that it's advised by the character who really wants all his children to act as their father tells them and to lie in the pursuit of self-promotion.
I suppose it's like all the Goths who wear exactly the same uniform and yet spew "I'm an individual" 24/7.
Those getting (misquoted) tattoos of this are the same people who got "egg fried rice" tattoos in Chinese last year.
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