#national theater live

swarnpert:

“if god had wanted you to live he would not have created me” is such a raw line you’d think it was from team fortress 2 but it’s actually from Hamlet

Bullshit.

It’s not from Hamlet.

Unless you mean it’s from some random guy who plays video games whose parents named him Hamlet – great sense of humor there, guys.

It’s not from Shakespeare’s play.

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Yes, I do have the dialog of all the characters in Hamlet memorized. Why do you ask.

Benedict Cumberbatch, that’s why.

( and that’s Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Laertes )

National Theatre Live 2015

the-blue-fairie:

I think he was swearing, but am not certain; 

however, he was pronouncing some formula which prevented him from replying to me directly.

My love for this production is beyond words. This scene plus when he realizes Jane is the same person he met in the lane makes up for the fact they rearranged those scenes.

I would say that National Theatre’s Jane Eyre is a true first person play and a semi perfect adaptation for me of the novel, especially knowing that it was a two night event before it was shortened for filming. I love that they had the bare stage so the focus is in the actors, their movements and their words, how the other actors occasionally becoming Jane’s inner subconscious and voice, and the music. Oh the use of music! How I wish there was a soundtrack, never thought “Mad about the Boy” and “Crazy” could fit damn well into Jane Eyre. I highly recommend this show. For any theater fan, literature fan and especially for a Jane Eyre fan. (PM me, if interested, I may or may not have a Google drive link.)