tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84858192123478220582024-03-05T13:36:40.057-08:00HAMLET - THE CLOWN PRINCEA BUNCH OF CLOWNS ARE PUTTING UP A SHOW OF HAMLET- THEY SOMETIMES MISINTERPRET THE TEXT, SOMETIMES FIND NEW MEANINGS IN IT, SOMETIMES TRY AND UNDERSTAND IT, VERY OFTEN MAKE A MESS OF IT.Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-35552329130156986112011-03-29T15:42:00.001-07:002011-03-29T15:42:47.930-07:00Didi Hopkins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
Hello<br />
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i wanted to congratulate you all on your magnificent show and performance on saturday at the hackney empire<br />
your piece was hugely enjoyable, highly sophisticated and simple at the same time,<br />
the grommelot/gibberish so perfectly placed in european it sounded so much like something - yet we got it all<br />
the weaving of the plot, the characters and the staging were brilliant and I wish you could be here longer and do the show again<br />
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well done and come again<br />
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best wishes<br />
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didi hopkins<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/pkirwan/entry/hamlet_the_clown/">The Bardathon review</a></div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-15352034394813136212011-03-13T01:44:00.000-08:002011-03-13T01:44:15.066-08:00fareweel to the view from our apartment in Newcastle. Next stop Coventry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyRJaopD9VmDVlurjlh9okKFvM9VjRKwJtmv0oLzZ3oKaddrTa51AN9Kxe9K-AvQUl9lqEq1TnBVltDP81afQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-79533646716753465682011-03-10T18:14:00.001-08:002011-03-10T18:14:33.899-08:00Anmol Sagar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hamlet: The clown prince<br />
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I recently went to see Rajat Kapoor’s ‘Hamlet: The clown prince’ at Prithvi. The play, (in gibberish and English as the advet said) was supposedly hilarious. I went in wondering how one could possibly make whiny and serious Hamlet funny….And I came out holding my sides, for they ached from all the laughing I did for 2 hours straight!!<br />
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The play has a company of clowns presenting their version of Hamlet along with multiple doses of digressions to share their own lives and personalities. Clowns being clowns, the play is not only funny, it’s filled with contemporary influences which manage to present the classical tragedy with a modern feel.<br />
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I was a little stunned when it started…. a clown opened it with something that sounded like a frantic mix of French, English, Chinese and some alien language all at the same time! That’s Gibberish for the untrained and it does take some getting used to. I wasn’t too sure whether the gibberish was really a needed ingredient (others with me felt it added a comical hue), but I thought the play would have been as funny even in just plain English.<br />
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The play was uproariously funny to say the least… the multiple digressions by the clowns where they would totally forget that they are enacting Hamlet were entertaining and the involvement of the audience members into their dialogues was ingenious and extraordinary. The actors were really good… it would take a lot to deliver a flawless 2 hour play. A special mention for the lead actor who played the clowning and the serious parts with great aplomb (His heartfelt speech on the death of Ophelia had me almost in tears!) I personally really liked the clown who played Claudius… he was brilliant in his portrayal of the airheaded disconnected clown and a devious step father to Hamlet at the same time. His impromptu dancing and breaking into songs from Lion king really had me holding my sides. At one time, he also played Hamlet’s dead father’s ghost (who by the way is not allowed to talk… being a ghost and all) where he was trying to, through dumb sharads, explain to the clueless Hamlet what he wants him to do to avenge his death!!<br />
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It is a challenge for anyone to present Hamlet in it’s entirely in 2 hours and this play did cut around some of the interlacing stories, but that did not make the story less complete in any way. The play ignored the whole Prince Fortinbras angle as also the betrayal of Rosencratz and Guildenstern… but it added a lot more through the stories of the clowns and their relationships with each other. <br />
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All in all, I was amazed at the creativity and the skill of the cast and the crew of the play and felt that the standing ovation they got at the end was really too little an appreciation! Hats off to the team and to Rajat Kapoor (who by the way was there at the venue sporting an arty look with a long unruly beard) for a great show!<br />
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Anmol Sagar</div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-18160793248360734002011-03-10T09:38:00.000-08:002011-03-10T09:38:38.146-08:00Review in The Guardian<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A strangely written review but I think he liked it. A pity he starts off by saying there's not a lot to like about Hamlet because he's talking about Shakespeare's 4-hour epic, not the '90 minutes of mayhem' that is the Clown's interpretation! <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/09/hamlet-the-clown-prince-review">The Guardian</a></div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-89393337449860857512011-03-10T05:18:00.000-08:002011-03-10T05:18:34.745-08:00Reviews from the performance in Newcastle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Some great reviews from the performance in Newcastle<br />
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<a href="http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8831299711079&title=Hamlet+the+Clown+Prince+%28Tour+-+Newcastle%29&ref=D">What's on Stage</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/theatre-in-newcastle/2011/03/10/review-hamlet-the-clown-prince-at-northern-stage-61634-28309198">The Jouurnal</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/hamletclown-rev.htm">British Theatre Guide</a><br />
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Roger McCann, the other Director of NFA went on ahead to sort out the accommodation - and what fantastic accommodation it is. We're in three apartments on the banks of the River Tyne - two on the Newcastle side and one on the Gateshead side. The Gateshead apartment is right next to the Baltic, Newcastle's contemporary art gallery created out of a former flour mill, and alongside the amazing concert hall - Sage. Those on the Newcastle side are in Hanover Mill, another fantastic apartment overlooking the river in the historic heart of Newcastle - complete with cobbled streets.<br />
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Tonight we're going out for dinner before work starts in earnest tomorrow morning. Get in to the theatre at 9.00am. </div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-60225993643741221942011-03-06T08:59:00.000-08:002011-03-06T08:59:18.467-08:00From Girish Karnad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>A superb piece of theatre. Inventive. Funny. Energetic. Don't miss it.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>- Girish</b></span><br />
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Place: The Company Theatre Office, Juhu<br />
Time: Early September 2008</div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-6708672123251300682011-02-17T23:53:00.001-08:002011-02-17T23:53:25.507-08:00Prithvi Fan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
hi rajat,<br />
<br />
this is to say i really laughed my head off and enjoyed the clown prince.<br />
<br />
i think the queen fat lady busso, the uncle king, and soso hamlet were particularly strong performances.<br />
<br />
the kings' death- throes- item number was hilarious'. i loved it.<br />
<br />
hamlet was remarkable. (i was shy or i'd have kissed atul for it. ) in spite of the buffoonery he keeps a taut tension consistently . he glides so smoothly through just slightly different registers and then suddenly "whats your problem man" sort of merging with or into the 'real' so that the performance blurs into a psychological state that suddenly is so familiar and 'mine'. i don't know if i can say it so well in a quick mail.<br />
<br />
and then in the clowning and bawdiness etc the little black pearl of a sort of sadness.<br />
fareeda<br />
</div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-51783599702928647172011-02-15T11:16:00.001-08:002011-02-15T11:16:48.835-08:00Fan Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Rajat,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><br />
I just adored the play. Am at dinner with this crazy assortment of<br />
friends - an Australian lady who runs a restaurant in Hong Kong, her<br />
German (?) chef, a Sri Lankan publicist woman who lives in Shanghai<br />
and an Australian dancer/ Performance Studies PhD guy who I met in<br />
Tokyo and we are all just buzzing - so electrified and energized and<br />
engaged...<br />
<br />
We have unanimously agreed that this is all of our favorite live<br />
performance we've seen in recent memory and, from me personally, I was<br />
so so thrilled to see it.<br />
<br />
Your hamlet is a fucking genius, from his opening monologue I was<br />
hooked; like buster keaton meets roberto begnini with the precision of<br />
michael jackson. Unreal. That clown is a character I would watch again<br />
and again - I want to see him in all sorts of environments - it's<br />
magic.<br />
<br />
Gertrude was spot on - a send up of a style that maintained its<br />
earnestness - no laughing at her character... She felt both fresh and<br />
truly honest - she truly believed but like all great performers she<br />
had a supreme sense of herself on the stage and tempered it so well.<br />
<br />
Ophelia was a revelation - having seen her in films before I was just<br />
blown away and her beautiful transformational moment of magic with the<br />
flowers straight broke my heart.<br />
<br />
Claudius absolutely rocked - he brought in a completely new and<br />
different influence; a modern pop-culture aesthetic and as my friend<br />
says he played his intelligence down which is the hardest thing for an<br />
actor to do - and he succeeded.<br />
<br />
Of course your wonderful MC, the fantastic Laertes, who held the piece<br />
together so assuredly and who's personal investment in the 'other'<br />
play - the life and health of his ragtag company grounded the play in<br />
a place of heart and truth.<br />
<br />
And last but certainly not least sweet loving polonius, the youngest<br />
playig the oldest - the striving company member who's voice is shut<br />
out but who's heart is so in the right place... He stayed my horatio<br />
throughout: the one who learns.<br />
<br />
And bossman - your work was beautiful. I'm so JEALOUS of your lucky<br />
cast for having the gift of creating this show with you. Their<br />
individual glows attest to the wonderful director that they had and,<br />
whatever that poor jaipur woman thought (though that was a beautiful<br />
moment - when she said she'd never before been to the theatre) "the<br />
other side?" is so what its about. That is the question, man, and you<br />
asked it. You rendered the text more than what is is - you took an<br />
almost fossilized text and breathed life into it so that the words<br />
became immaterial - until you'd choose to throw in a gem and man did<br />
it shine.<br />
<br />
Thank you thank you: delhi arts summit, nsd theatre fest, literary<br />
festival can all go and suck it: this is the best art I've seen in a<br />
long long time.<br />
<br />
So much love and respect.<br />
I can't wait to see you soon and talk more about this all and am so<br />
excited to work together now and hopefully in the future.<br />
<br />
Ps. Your son is a gem.<br />
<br />
Your sometime grandson,<br />
-satya.</b></span></div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485819212347822058.post-78054922115865919222011-02-10T13:30:00.000-08:002011-02-10T13:30:40.700-08:00Hmmm... :(<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">You know what?<br />
<br />
My Uncle doesn't say it for nothing.<br />
<br />
I really look ugly.<br />
<br />
:(<br />
<br />
-Hamlet</div>Hamlet - The Clown Princehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525778817360850454noreply@blogger.com1