Hyperion to a Satyr – The Fire and Water Podcast Network’s Hamlet Podcast – continues Siskoid’s scene-by-scene deep dive into Shakespeare’s masterwork, discussing the text, but also performance and staging through the lens of several films, television, comics and even a rock opera. In Act 4, Scene 4, Hamlet encounters Fortinbras’ army!
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Credits:
Theme: “Fanfare” from 1996 Hamlet, by Patrick Doyle, with a clip from that film, starring Ray Fearon; the 2009 Hamlet, starring David Tennant; and the 1980 Hamlet, starring Derek Jacobi.
Bonus clips: Hamlet 1996 by Kenneth Branagh, starring Jeffery Kissoon and Kenneth Branagh; Hamlet 1980 by Rodney Bennett, starring Derek Jacobi; Hamlet 2000 by Michael Almereyda, starring Ethan Hawke; Hamlet 2009 by Gregory Doran, starring David Tennant; Slings & Arrows, starring Luke Kirby; and In a Bleak Midwinter by Kenneth Branagh, starring Michael Maloney.
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I call this ‘the forgotten soliloquy’ because it just isn’t in many interpretations.
So it is only when I reread (or see Branagh) which is about once every years that I remember it. And I am always taken aback by it because I have forgotten it in between.
Great coverage.
Rufus Sewell is always good.
Branagh’s casting strategy is winning. He makes characters with very few lines come alive by playing off name actors’ presence and personas.