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BONUS: Long Beach Playhouse's 'Hamlet'

BONUS: Long Beach Playhouse's 'Hamlet'

FromShakespeare's Shadows


BONUS: Long Beach Playhouse's 'Hamlet'

FromShakespeare's Shadows

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
May 4, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Roberto Williams is one of five actors together playing the title character in Long Beach Playhouse’s current production of "Hamlet". One actor plays what’s called the core Hamlet, and the others play four parts of Hamlet’s psyche: wisdom, innocence, justice, and vengeance — Roberto plays the latter.

In this bonus episode, Roberto discusses this unique staging of what’s often referred to as Shakespeare’s best play. He also shares some details about another adaptation of "Hamlet" inspired by Deaf culture that he’s developing, and he chats about his popular Instagram and TikTok reels that connect Shakespeare’s characters to modern pop culture.
Released:
May 4, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (21)

Featuring interviews with both actors and academics, Shakespeare’s Shadows delves into a single Shakespeare character in each episode. Perspectives from the worlds of academia, theater, and film together shape explorations of the Bard’s shadows, his imitations of life — pretty good imitations, ones that reveal enough of ourselves that we’re still talking about them four centuries later.