A Workshop Performance
The Questors Studio
January 2009
Directed by Mark Fitzgerald
A Workshop performance of Shakespeare's play
(QNews 15, December 2008)
Joint Artistic Director Mark Fitzgerald and a group of actors will attempt to perform the first three acts of Hamlet. Here is the catch: they will work under the same conditions as Shakespeare's actors.
Each actor has received a cue script of their part: that is, their lines and a three-word cue line leading up to their lines. In addition they have been given the Platt (or plot) of the play telling them when they enter. They will then learn their part in isolation and only meet the rest of the cast on the day of the performance. The first time they will act with each other will be in the first performance.
They are not allowed to read the whole play and - believe it or not, some of the actors are unfamiliar with the play.
We then aim to see how a modern actor will deal with the uncertainty and absence of rehearsal. Come along and support these brave souls, risking reputation and sanity.
Anything can happen. The cast includes Questors actors:
Robin Ingram, Paul Whiting, Rachel Power, Will O'Connell, Alex McDevitt, Steve Tillett, Hannah Whiteoak, Anthony Curran, Mark Fitzgerald, Simon Thomas, Derek Stoddart, Geoffrey Morgan, Rahul Kohli and Rob Clother.
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