More matter with less art.

#does this mean in the first one horatio bursts into his shower like hey hamlet i saw the ghost of your dad (via hyenateeth)

People arguing whether Hamlet was written as a teenager or as a 30 year old: 😡🤜🤜

so I played Hamlet at 16 and man... him being a teenager really does hit different. Because it takes this whiny 30 year old man child and makes him infinitely more tragic because suddenly he is a LITERAL CHILD. Like my Hamlet was this scared kid, unable to comprehend exactly what death meant, struggling with all these FIRSTS: first loss of a family member, first love, first realization that his adult role models are actually really fucked up. 16 year old Hamlet just wants a hug from his mom but every time he looks at her he remembers that she is completely different from the person he thought she was. 16 year old Hamlet emotionally can’t handle a relationship with Ophelia but isn’t mature enough to understand that and ends up hurting her and himself in the process (not to mention struggling with his sexuality). 16 year old Hamlet has his whole life ahead of him, and it’s cut short by a terrifying father with impossible expectations. 16 year old Hamlet is struggling with mental illness and has no words to describe what he is feeling except that it is BAD and he wants to die. He’s a kid who’s been failed by all the adults in his life. His anger at his mom isn’t because of some weird Oedipal complex, it’s because he needs her and she isn’t there.

good idea: a film version of hamlet set in the 80s where the opening credits have “funky town” playing over a travel sequence of horatio wearing a corduroy jacket listening to his walkman on a cross-country bus going to elsinore and for the first few minutes of the movie everyone in the audience is really confused because it’s supposed to be hamlet but this funky fresh opening sequence has severely caught them off guard