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(Based on a performance of Hamlet)Discuss, in detail, what you felt to be either the strongest or the weakest performance by one actor and explain why. Give details of a particular scene or section, including reference to voice, movement, characterization
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Choose a scene or section from a production you have seen during your course. Discuss, in detail, what you felt to be either the strongest or the weakest performance by one actor and explain why. Give details of a particular scene or section, including reference to voice, movement, characterization and relationships between characters on stage. I have chosen to write about is the University College School Production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by Allan Steven, seen on 29th March 2007 at the Lund Theatre. The actor whose performance I felt was the strongest is Jay Saighal, who played the character Claudius, The King of Denmark, younger Hamlet's uncle, and the play's antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling-his love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere....
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