happy halloween to my sister from the cast of Dracula(love you nane)

shakespeare expressed

 What interests me most about this play is how contemporary Hamlet's thoughts are, yet how uncontemporary the mode of a speech is to us now. I know I'm not the first to say that, but I might be one of a few younger persons who has listened to near a 100hrs of the "Great's" perform Shakespeare AND is highly interested in delivering the text to audiences that is built off the achievements of yesterday, with a sound that is today. With ever shortening tolerance for classical acting/texts that don't instantly hit them, audiences, especially younger ones, don't care to give the the time or politeness to sit and struggle to understand and identify with what's going on and being said on something as foreign as a stage. And why should they? With web access to hundreds of media outlets like "Youtube", and "Hulu" they can get anything that speaks to them more quickly, cheaply and more "comprehensibly". But the texts of Shakespeare, especially Hamlet, have the advantage of powerful and beautiful language, which said in real time can be matched by nothing. "No not for a king", "muddy-metal rascal", "A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!", "I did love you once"--I strongly believe, when spoken in a sound of now, but using the techniques of our great acting predecessors, this language can shake people to the core and give any film or video a run for it's money.

Harker asks for help

Lucy and Harker take some R&R