Actors can’t play Hamlet as simply mad in world of mental health awareness, actor says
As a teacher, I have for decades approached Hamlet like this: If everyone in the audience agrees that Hamlet was sane or Hamlet was mad, then the production was a failure; Shakespeare’s text was ambiguous, and a good production should preserve that ambiguity. The director should guide the actor to make conscious choices about what motivates this line or this action, so the *actor* should know what’s going on in…
