Yes, Hamlet Can Rap
Project Overview
This video is a series of seven pieces somewhere between spoken word poems, raps, and monologues, following the structure of Hamlet's seven soliloquies in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Written in modern language, they attempt to invoke the feeling and rhythm of iambic pentameter, bringing the genius of the play into the modern world. I'm looking for someone to help me out to play the part of Hamlet.
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Hamlet is scared, confused, alone, and suicidal. He is inherantly a coward, but uses his words to try and mask this, though in his soliloquies this reveals more than it hides. He has to be able to rap quickly and emotionally.
"My world is falling into disrepair: my father dead, my mother caught in my uncles snare. It's all pointless, beleive me, it's my life, I've lived it. I should be the one with the right to get rid of it."
"I've got to take action. I've got to create a reaction. I've got to reanact the scene of the crime and gain traction to this claim of revenge."
"I'm doing it again: camouflaging myself behind bombastic, ornamented, grandiloquent turns of phrase, allowing polysyllabic, pretentious rationalizations to strech on for days and days."
