{"id":97459,"date":"2016-06-10T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/runecestershire-chrishemswag-concept-a\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T22:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:39:48","slug":"runecestershire-chrishemswag-concept-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/runecestershire-chrishemswag-concept-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/runecestershire.tumblr.com\/post\/145555995361\" target=\"_blank\">runecestershire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/chrishemswag.tumblr.com\/post\/145508886037\" target=\"_blank\">chrishemswag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>concept: a production of hamlet where none of the actors are younger than 65. everyone is old. specifically, hamlet is played by ian mckellen, and gertrude is played by betty white. nothing else about the play changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what? This is an awesome idea.<\/p>\n<p>Youth and romance aren\u2019t very big themes in the play, and having all the characters older wouldn\u2019t interfere with these themes at all, but give them an interesting perspective. For one thing, it would make any romance between Hamlet and Ophelia or Hamlet and Horatio not all that different at all than that between Gertrude and Claudius. <\/p>\n<p>And Hamlet\u2019s judgemental attitude towards Gertrude and Claudius\u2019 relationship would have a very different context. \u201cFor at<\/p>\n<p>your<br \/>\nage the hey-day in the blood is tame, it\u2019s humble, and waits upon the judgement\u201d comes across rather differently if Hamlet himself is decidedly no longer a young man. <\/p>\n<p>And Laertes and Ophelia as very much grown up siblings? Yes please!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>runecestershire: chrishemswag: concept: a production of hamlet where none of the actors are younger than 65. everyone is old. specifically, hamlet is played by ian mckellen, and gertrude is played by betty white. nothing else about the play changes. You know what? This is an awesome idea. Youth and romance aren\u2019t very big themes in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/runecestershire-chrishemswag-concept-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2589,322,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}