Great Performances at the Met Returns with New Season Beginning February 6 on PBS Season 16 features Metropolitan Opera stars Angel Blue, Isabel Leonard, Lise Davidsen, René Pape, Matthew Polenzani, Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Eric Owens, Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Piotr Beczała, Liudmyla Monastyrska and more. In Season 16, Great Performances at ...
Baritone Simon Keenlyside, whose performance as Hamlet received rave reviews when this production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser was introduced at the Metropolitan Opera, commands the stage in the opera’s premiere on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met, in primetime on Thursday, July 15 ...
Join GREAT PERFORMANCES to go behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company's exciting new production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." David Tennant, Patrick Stewart and director Gregory Doran discuss the creative process of transferring the production from the original RSC stage production to the on-location ...
Director Gregory Doran Producers John Wyver Sebastian Grant Hamlet David Tennant Claudius and The Ghost Patrick Stewart Gertrude Penny Downie Polonius Oliver Ford Davies Ophelia Mariah Gale Laertes Edward Bennett Horatio Peter De Jersey Rosencrantz and Second Gravedigger Sam Alexander Guildenstern Tom Davey Gravedigger Mark ...
Great Performances interviewed the recently-knighted "Sir" Patrick Stewart on his role in the upcoming GP special Hamlet to air on PBS stations nationwide on April 28th at 8 p.m. Stewart talked about the process of creating a modern adaptation of the Scottish play, how the ...
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In this production the actors decided that they preferred the rule of Claudius, a peace-keeping King who enjoyed a good party! This is important in the staging as it is when we, the audience, and the Court first see Claudius as King. The staging of ...
Every actor should understand exactly what they are saying in order to make the most of their role. For the first two to three weeks of the rehearsal process Gregory Doran gave the actors three key rules when they were reading the play: 1) That ...
The Players Speech - Hamlet's Attempt to Kill Claudius - Greg Doran decided to repeat the image of Priam hesitating with his sword in the air, as shown by the player, when Hamlet takes the dagger to Claudius. Watch The Player’s speech immediately followed by ...
In Greg Doran's rehearsals, the actors decided that Osric is a 'political flunkie' – an ambitious young employee of the court, hoping to impress Claudius. They used clothes to convey this – the production is in modern dress so the designer used clothes that a ...
The final scene. How did the choices the actors made differ from the choices of the group? What movements were the most effective and why? What was more significant gesture or looks? You might want to watch it again with the sound off to specifically ...
