Hamlet- The Lantern Theater Company

The performance that we went to see with the Lantern Theater Company was very exciting and seemed to be as visual as a movie in HD even though it was a live play (and that is certainly a compliment to the actors and directors and everyone involved in the production). The actor's portrayal of Hamlet's character was amazing. He literally stole the show, but I know he was supposed to do that because it is a play written from his point of view. Hamlet was my favorite character in the play. He was witty and funny and scary at times. Being all of these things, I became most interested with his character and the millions of emotions that he could go through in a single scene.

I think seeing the live performance enhanced my understanding of some of the aside intentions of some of the other characters. I was able to physically see what that character really felt instead of making an inference from what I read. Although my inferences were fairly accurate a lot of the time, for the actions I could not determine clearly, I needed to see the intentions. For example, I was unsure if the queen did not have a say in taking her brother-in-law's hand in marriage or if she were a conspirator in the matter. The play revealed to me that she might've really known all along the fate of her husband and truly did not care too much if he lived or not. It just seemed as though she loved his brother more.