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Photo by Jeff Malet A Mondavi Center Just Added Event Thursday–Friday, November 1–2, 2012 • 8PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis There will be one intermission. Program is subject to change. The artists and your fellow audience members appreciate silence during the performance. Please be sure that you have switched off all electronic devices. Videotaping, photographing and audio recording are strictly forbidden. Violators are subject to removal. 4 | Mondavi Center Presents Program issue 3: nov 2012 ShakeSpeare’S Globe Hamlet Hamlet by william Shakespeare Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director Sacha Milroy, Executive Producer Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Buckhurst, Directors Jonathan Fensom, Set and Costume Designer Laura Forrest-Hay, Original Score Bill Barclay, Composer/Arranger Paul Russell, Lighting Designer Siân Williams, Choreographer Kevin McCurdy, Fight Director Giles Block, Globe Associate—Text Glynn McDonald, Globe Associate—Movement Martin McKellan, Voice and Dialect Alison Convey, Assistant Director Chloe Stephens, Assistant Choreographer Ng Choon Ping, Assistant Text Work Paul Russell and Dave McEvoy, Production Managers Wills, Technical Manager Marion Marrs, Company Manager Peter Huntley, Touring Associate Eleanor Oldham and John Luckacovic, 2Luck Concepts, U.S. General Management Claire Godden, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, U.K. General Management Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre u.S. board: Audre D Carlin (life president), Jo Maitland Weiss (chair), Gerald H Cromack, Jim Dale MBE, Barry Day OBE, Peter Hilton, Alan Jones, Peter Kent CMG, Sara Mill er McCune, Shelley Parker, Natalie T Pray, Christie-Anne Weiss, Warren Whitaker and Neil Constable CEO, Shakespeare’s Globe.
cAst lIst Michael Benz, Hamlet Peter Bray, Rosencrantz / Marcellus / Prince Fortinbras / Osric Miranda Foster, Gertrude / Second Player / Player Queen / Second Gravedigger Tom Lawrence, Horatio / Reynaldo / Captain Carlyss Peer, Ophelia / Voltemand Matthew Romain, Laertes / Bernardo / Guildenstern / Lucianus Christopher Saul, Polonius / Francisco / Player / First Gravedigger / Priest Dickon Tyrrell, Claudius / Ghost / First Player / Player King Other parts played by members of the company. ProgrAm notes synopsis Guarding the castle at Elsinore, Marcellus and Bernardo tell Horatio that they have seen the ghost of the dead King Hamlet. The ghost reappears, and they decide they must tell the dead King’s son, Hamlet, about it. Hamlet is present at a reception being given by his uncle Claudius, who has just married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Claudius is sending ambassadors to Norway to stop a planned invasion by young Fortinbras. He gives Polonius’s son Laertes permission to return to France. Hamlet reflects on the hasty marriage and learns of the ghost’s visit. That night he meets the ghost, who reveals that King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius, and Hamlet willingly agrees to be the means of revenge. He warns Horatio and the others not to speak of what has happened, even if he should behave strangely. Polonius bids farewell to Laertes and warns his daughter Ophelia against Hamlet’s courtship. Later, she tells Polonius of a strange visitation by Hamlet, and Polonius reports to the King and Queen that rejected love is the cause of Hamlet’s supposed madness. Hamlet’s fellow students Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive, invited by the King to find out what is wrong. Polonius arranges for Ophelia to meet Hamlet where he and Claudius can observe them. Hamlet and Ophelia argue, and Hamlet, having become suspicious about being observed, tells her she should go to a nunnery. Claudius is convinced that love is not the cause of Hamlet’s behavior and decides to send him abroad. Meanwhile, traveling players have arrived, and Hamlet asks them to perform “The Murder of Gonzago” before the King, so that he and Horatio can judge Claudius’s guilt by his reaction. When one of the players enacts the poisoning of a king, Claudius leaves in high emotion. Gertrude asks to see Hamlet, and Polonius decides to hide in the room to hear what is said. Hamlet arrives in his mother’s room and kills the person he discovers in hiding, thinking it to be Claudius but finding it to be Polonius. He argues fiercely with Gertrude. The ghost appears, restraining Hamlet’s anger towards his mother and reminding him of the need for revenge. Claudius instructs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet immediately to England. Ophelia descends into madness. Laertes returns, blaming Claudius for his father’s death and is incensed to see Ophelia in this state. Claudius persuades him that Hamlet is to blame. When Claudius receives a letter from Hamlet reporting his return to Denmark, he plots with Laertes to kill him. They arrange a duel in which Laertes’s sword will be unblunted and poisoned. Claudius will also poison a drink, which he will offer Hamlet. Gertrude arrives with the news that Ophelia has drowned. Hamlet meets Horatio on returning to Elsinore. On the way, they see two men digging a grave, and Hamlet talks to the first, reflecting on the skulls he finds. They discover that the grave is for Ophelia. Hamlet reveals himself to the funeral party, grappling with Laertes and proclaiming his love for Ophelia. Later, Hamlet tells Horatio how the trip to England was a subterfuge for his death, arranged by Claudius, and how he managed to escape. Osric enters with news of the proposed fencing match, and Hamlet accepts the challenge. With Hamlet in the lead, Gertrude toasts him and drinks from the poisoned cup. Laertes wounds Hamlet with the poisoned rapier and is then wounded with it by Hamlet. Before he dies, Laertes blames Claudius, and Hamlet kills the King. Hamlet, close to death, passes the Danish succession to Fortinbras and instructs Horatio to tell his story. —Synopsis adapted from Shakespeare’s Words by David Crystal and Ben Crystal, Penguin, 2002. www.shakespeareswords.com Bill Barclay (composer and arranger) is music manager at the Globe, and his previous credits for the Globe include Much Ado About Nothing. Barclay is an American composer, actor and director. He has been a company member at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, for 10 seasons and its Resident Music Director from 2006–11. He is a member of the Resident Acting Company as well as a composer and director at the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston (eight seasons). Barclay has performed and devised original work for the Mercury Theatre Company in Colchester and has performed, composed and lectured on the Music of the Spheres in theaters and universities throughout the United States. Winner of two Meet the Composer grants as well as a Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the largest grant for actors in the U.S. Michael Benz (Hamlet) trained at RADA. He has previously appeared at Shakespeare’s Globe in As You Like It, A New World, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Winter’s Tale. His other theater credits include: The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Chichester and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hay Fever (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company); The American Clock, You May Go Now and The December Man (Finborough Theatre). His film credits include City Slackers. His television credits include: BBC Prefaces to Shakespeare, Mike and Angelo, Little Lord Fauntleroy and JD Salinger Doesn’t Want to Talk. Giles Block (Globe associate—text) has led the text work at Shakespeare’s Globe since 1999, and to date has been involved in more than 50 productions. This season he’ll add several new Shakespeare productions to the list. His directing credits at MondaviArts.org | 5
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