Hamalot: Play-Within-a-Play Ideas
Ideas for the play-within-a-play scene.
Key moments:
Hamlet instructs the players.
Hamlet clues in Horatio.
Hamlet interacts baudily with Oph, and disrespectfully with Clau/Gert.
Play unfolds.
Method of murder is revealed.
King freaks out and leaves.
Implementation assumptions:
Do not use additional cast for players. Reuse existing cast hidden.
Use agressively innovative approach, eschewing the original.
Possible simple absurdist approaches:
String puppets.
Shadow puppets.
Sock puppets.
Circus acts:
Need form that can tell a story.
Human statues?
Wire?
More ideas:
Video game? (maybe with human avatars, as seen in royal outdoor chess courts)
Interpretive dance (1-3 people, no speech, music?)
Flash animation?
Note that in Hamlet 2000 this was done as an Indy noir film which Hamlet had authored.
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