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Mockingbird - ERNest - Hamlet - Shakespeare [Archive of Our Own]
Hush little baby, don’t say a word, brother’s gonna buy you a mockingbird…
The tunes are almost, but not quite, what they sang together as children.Rating:General Audiences
Archive Warning:Major Character Death
Fandom:Hamlet - Shakespeare
Characters:Laertes (Hamlet),Ophelia (Hamlet),Hamlet (Hamlet)
Additional Tags: Mental Health Issues,Childhood Memories,Grief/Mourning,Implied/Referenced Suicide,Inspired by the Almeida Theater Production (2017)
Words: 1091
The other day I saw a production of Hamlet, where as everyone’s dying, Hamlet runs to Laertes as soon as he starts falling down and holds him in his arms while he’s explaining what happened. He runs to kill Claudius with sword and with poison, and then comes back to hold Laertes as he begs for forgiveness on both sides. There’s a quiet moment and when he says “Heaven make you free of it” it sounds almost tender, and he lets his boyfriend to the ground gently.
And then of course Horatio holds Hamlet the same way, but for longer, and it was a beautiful parallel, so polyamorous Hamlet is what I’m saying.
Someone randomly liked this post, so I’m coming back five years later to add on that the paapa essiedu production has hamlet and laertes clinging to each other while covered in blood!
Fellas, is it gay…
always thinking about the production of hamlet i saw at the pop up globe a couple of years ago where everyone was costumed in typical shakespearean dress and the set was fairly minimal BUT! they gave polonius an iphone. it was like a running gag that his ringtone kept going off when hamlet or claudius were trying to speak and they would get more and more impatient with him every time. the cast had perfect comedic timing and it was such a perfect modernisation of typical shakespeare humour
but oh my God. the nervous laughter that rippled through the audience when his phone went off behind the tapestry. the heavy silence that followed, interrupted only by the incessant chime of polonius’ ringtone and a muffled “shit, shit!” while he tried to decline the call. it keeps ringing even after hamlet has already put his sword through him. hamlet picks it up in his bloody hands and ends the call, puts it back in polonius’ grasp before turning back to face gertrude.
hands down the best set up and pay-off of any addition to a shakespeare play i have ever witnessed
Let’s be honest here: Mercutio is tumblr’s baby. If there was a poll on favourite Shakespeare characters, he’d win by a landslide. So we had to make a cocktail for him, but we were also very specific about what we wanted to make it suit the character. It had to contain enough hard alcohol to put you in insta-party mode, but it also had to be pretty damn sweet. It had to give off a joyful and incredibly queer vibe while being colourful as fuck. We pondered and pondered, and then it hit us. Now we proudly present: The Mercutio.
Ingredients:
- Pomegranate juice (red)
- Apricot juice (orange)
- Mango juice (yellow)
- Woodruff syrup (green)
- Powerade “Mountain Blast” sports drink (blue)
- Blackcurrant juice (purple)
- Rhubarb juice (pink)
- 2 cl vodka
- 2 cl Bacardi Razz
- 4 cl Cointreau
Preparation:
Make ice cubes from the various different juices; obviously you can use different flavours so long as the colours match up, but these go well together. (Handy hints: the woodruff syrup needs to be mixed with water, but not too much, else it will turn out turquoise rather than green; the blackcurrant juice works best when mixed with a bit of Powerade and a bit of water, to become more purple rather than dark purple-red; if you don’t like Powerade, Curaçao is an alternative for the blue bits.)
Stack the ice cubes in a tall glass so that they make a rainbow (i.e. in the order they’re given above). Top up with the alcohol - pre-chilled, ideally, so that the ice takes longer to melt. Ta-daah! Drinkable, alcoholic rainbow. Go crash a Capulet party with your boyfriend and the Montacrew.
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