Hamlet | Act 3 Scene 1 | Royal Shakespeare Company

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  • Опубликовано: 10 май 2017
  • Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet performing the ‘To be or not to be’ speech from the RSC’s 2018 tour of Hamlet.
    Find out more about the play at www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet
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  • @loodiamexican
    @loodiamexican 4 года назад +165

    Never before had a rendition of this Hamlet monologue hit so uncomfortably home to me as this one. This portrayal shows such vulnerable fear and internal conflict that hits like a wrecking ball, reminding me of my own personal journey over the last few years. I never truly understood what was being said until this performance.

    • @jskeen9503
      @jskeen9503 3 года назад

      @@rawangabr3630 lmaoo

    • @stevenyourke7901
      @stevenyourke7901 2 года назад

      Hamlet was a strong and virile character, not a black sissy. He’s not the least bit vulnerable or fearful. Quite the contrary. He is deeply grieved over his father’s death, appalled and disgusted at his mother’s marriage with his uncle, and for some reason that no one can explain, he feigns madness and procrastinates endlessly before he finally avenges his father’s murder. But he always behaves in a manner that is courageous and manly. This portrayal is pathetic.

    • @Andy-lm2zp
      @Andy-lm2zp 2 года назад

      Mel Gibson did a great version

    • @stevenyourke7901
      @stevenyourke7901 2 года назад

      @@Andy-lm2zp If only Brando had played Hamlet! He would have been perfect. Brooding melancholy and passionate outbursts.

    • @greywalker505
      @greywalker505 Год назад +1

      @@stevenyourke7901
      “Black sissy.” Ye gods, man.

  • @baileeparkes9316
    @baileeparkes9316 4 года назад +30

    Essiedu is genuinely one if my favourite Shakespearean actors out there right now. His Edmund was really good too

  • @tainorosario8902
    @tainorosario8902 5 лет назад +26

    So far my favourite rendition. I must see the entire production. Chills every time.

  • @harrisonhenley5760
    @harrisonhenley5760 7 лет назад +77

    Something about the way Paapa does this scene which is both beautiful and haunting. Everything is just point perfect.

  • @constancelaundon
    @constancelaundon 3 года назад +14

    This magnificent interpretation rips open and reveals deep avenues of thought and feeling.
    I so appreciate the Jean-Michel Basquiat inspired costume and set. ~ Multiple creative layers of drama.

  • @rustyhughes
    @rustyhughes 7 лет назад +77

    About time this has been put up! Saw Paapa perform this in Stratford last year - was captivating and immediately became my favourite performance of this most famous of monologues.

  • @AnujKumar-em8lv
    @AnujKumar-em8lv 6 лет назад +23

    Lovely performance, i had goosebumps throughout the scene.

  • @dunbar5d
    @dunbar5d 6 лет назад +52

    This soliloquy has been recited so many time but this beats them all - this is a lyrical performance. It's like listening to a well done opera.

  • @DeLisaMarie726
    @DeLisaMarie726 4 года назад +5

    had the pleasure of seeing this production...I was amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @crazypianolady
    @crazypianolady 6 лет назад +20

    Travelled down from Newcastle just to see this in Hackney. What a performance, so natural and subtle!

  • @sarahbeardsley
    @sarahbeardsley 2 года назад +1

    absolutely OBSESSED with his Hamlet, omg

  • @fprkendogg8713
    @fprkendogg8713 4 года назад +328

    who else is here because of there teachers

  • @amyv5647
    @amyv5647 2 года назад +3

    Absolutely amazing. Perfection.

  • @riyapatel6291
    @riyapatel6291 6 лет назад +17

    Saw this at the hackney empire and was blown away .

  • @charlie5115
    @charlie5115 7 лет назад +8

    Beautiful.

  • @chasshood4649
    @chasshood4649 6 лет назад +2

    Brilliant! A must see!!!

  • @carlchilders6069
    @carlchilders6069 4 года назад +4

    Love this take on young Prince Hamlet

  • @robhall3311
    @robhall3311 2 года назад +4

    I had doubts at first seeing the costuming, but he was brilliant!

  • @jennykateb2879
    @jennykateb2879 6 лет назад +6

    He does such a good job!

  • @b.taylor1634
    @b.taylor1634 5 лет назад +13

    Art is and always will be something that is meant to evolve and grow as each generation reflects on its relevance throughout history up to the moment of now. How can we grow how can we feel if we are not allowed to free our minds from societies fears. Ideas, Art, Science, Life is meant to be shared - I believe everyone should respect that. Artists are rebels, those unwilling to stand silent. Thank God.

  • @anthoninealexis
    @anthoninealexis 7 лет назад +5

    So good. I like it! :)

  • @Massivecarcrash
    @Massivecarcrash 6 лет назад +11

    That was rather good.

  • @Alex1977ification
    @Alex1977ification 3 года назад +2

    BRILLIANT. The way Shakespeare should be done.

  • @davidborn4636
    @davidborn4636 4 года назад +4

    Wow..he just nails it.

  • @wordscapes5690
    @wordscapes5690 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wonderful actor. Though I am not into modernists “make-fit” renditions of classical dramas. But what a wonderfully sensitive rendering. Great talent here.

  • @MFPhoto1
    @MFPhoto1 7 лет назад +70

    Certainly a different approach. It shows Hamlet's fears.

  • @tracy2919
    @tracy2919 5 лет назад +7

    Great performance. I think I'll cite performance in my essay

  • @alexandervue9464
    @alexandervue9464 2 года назад

    He is phenomenal

  • @mayabewley4266
    @mayabewley4266 4 года назад +5

    saw this at the lowry a few years ago he's an incredible actor

  • @peterchu8224
    @peterchu8224 3 года назад +1

    Brilliant

  • @nicocat2504
    @nicocat2504 5 лет назад +3

    Twas a cool show

  • @lighthouse3384
    @lighthouse3384 Год назад

    I’m here fprk because no other teacher took the time to share this with me .
    To be or not to be , in my school it was not to be . 😢😢 sad .

  • @houarimimouni5702
    @houarimimouni5702 3 года назад +1

    Good performance

  • @fraynevliegenthart6112
    @fraynevliegenthart6112 4 года назад +9

    Can someone tell me why he's covered in chalk paint?

    • @johng7410
      @johng7410 4 года назад +9

      This is after he's feigned madness. His madness was shown by throwing paint about the place.

  • @gyorgyandrasl.6005
    @gyorgyandrasl.6005 4 года назад +9

    Very touching, moving wonderful.I wish I could see the whole production!

    • @janehollander1934
      @janehollander1934 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/El6dv3Mi8oI/видео.html ✌🏻

  • @fightingblindly
    @fightingblindly 4 года назад +4

    Just took my breath away.

  • @alannolan3514
    @alannolan3514 Год назад

    That geezer's great

  • @malin434
    @malin434 Год назад

    wow, my bby snapped

  • @rashidahshakir2632
    @rashidahshakir2632 3 года назад

    This is painful and exquisite.

  • @user-sb3wh3dd4v
    @user-sb3wh3dd4v 4 года назад +1

    Beautiful interpretation! Superb!

  • @jitko42
    @jitko42 4 года назад +1

    💞

  • @sarahbeardsley
    @sarahbeardsley 2 года назад

    Branagh this Olivier that LOOK AT THIS MAN

  • @marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974
    @marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974 4 года назад

    I love it

  • @ThomSonnyYeah
    @ThomSonnyYeah 4 года назад

    Basqauit?

  • @KiNGJ_61
    @KiNGJ_61 4 года назад

    If y’all want I’ll post how to do this on my RUclips

  • @azmkhanofficial6091
    @azmkhanofficial6091 2 года назад

    untill 0:43 was he scratching his back hole ?
    some one please let me know i mean is that scripted in the play itself??

  • @JimDock
    @JimDock 12 дней назад

    That is the correct answer

  • @zName1
    @zName1 3 года назад

    "RSC’s 2018 tour of Hamlet" But this video was published in 2017.

  • @virgilrobertsjr7870
    @virgilrobertsjr7870 Год назад

    I'm here because I just read this segment from the book, "A Poem A Day" edited by Karen McCosker and Nicholas Albery.
    A TRUE TREAT INDEED!
    ☆☆☆☆☆
    😎

  • @christopherproctor2536
    @christopherproctor2536 2 года назад

    shit bangs. this soliloquy hits way harder in a british accent

  • @CranCanVR
    @CranCanVR Год назад

    Later I am in a Shakespeare competition. I am doing this monologue. I’m terrified.

    • @narizota
      @narizota 3 месяца назад

      how did it go

  • @jimwigler
    @jimwigler 5 лет назад +1

    Actually, I thought this rhymed with Sphinx.

  • @qlotadam7959
    @qlotadam7959 4 года назад +3

    Anlamadım ama anladım ✅

  • @fododude
    @fododude 4 года назад

    So, it looks like the ghost of Basquiat painted the set.

  • @Fjordavy
    @Fjordavy 5 лет назад +6

    I didn’t know Sesame St did Shakespeare

  • @stoonartna
    @stoonartna 4 года назад +1

    Hamlet, acte III, scène 1 *
    To be, or not to be, that is the question,
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against the sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep-
    No more, and by a sleep to say we end
    The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
    That flesh is heir to; 'tis a consummation
    Devoutly to be wished to die to sleep ! To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
    Must give us pause-there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life :
    For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
    Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
    The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
    The insolence of office, and the spurns
    That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make
    With a bare bodkin; who would fardels bear,
    To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
    But that the dread of something after death,
    The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
    No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
    And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
    Than fly to others that we know not of ?
    Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
    And thus the native hue a resolution
    Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
    And enterprises of great pitch and moment
    With this regard their currents turn awry,
    And lose the name of action.... Soft you now,
    The fair Ophelia-Nymph, in thy orisons
    Be all my sins remembered.

  • @MarthaGarvey
    @MarthaGarvey 3 года назад +1

    Here because he is amazing as Kwame.

  • @katiieeardley
    @katiieeardley 4 года назад +2

    Although a unique choice in delivery, the acting somehow mirrors the emotional aesthetic of the soliloquy in a more authentic way than many performances that I've seen so far

    • @canyoubeserious
      @canyoubeserious 4 года назад +1

      Katie E I thought it was great too; but, the delivery is not all that wildly unique.

  • @princenathan3941
    @princenathan3941 5 лет назад +2

    Jesus

  • @mikeince2929
    @mikeince2929 Год назад

    No teachers allowed...

  • @juanedoses8715
    @juanedoses8715 4 года назад +2

    wuz Shakespeare an shit.

  • @vino140
    @vino140 6 лет назад

    Much too "mannered."

  • @mjc5509
    @mjc5509 2 года назад

    SORRY..JUST DOSNT WORK....FOR ME

  • @adamdunlaptv
    @adamdunlaptv 3 года назад +1

    I liked his costume, but that was about it 🙈 It seemed moment focused rather than message focused like he was stepping out to return to ways that he had done before rather than following the unique energy of that moment to deliver the monologue authentically. It felt disjointed and forced at times rather than emanating from spirit and experience. I heard he won awards for this role, so perhaps it was an off night.

  • @Andy-lm2zp
    @Andy-lm2zp 3 года назад

    Not good

  • @Jack-fs2im
    @Jack-fs2im Год назад

    This is not how it was original performed with such exageration.Look for the “original pronounciation” editions at the Globe

  • @RexCorpuscle
    @RexCorpuscle 2 года назад +1

    Nicely spoken, Paapa, but you clearly have no idea what it means. Like Tennant and the rest, you're just saying the words with feeling and hoping for the best.

  • @bobbytate9907
    @bobbytate9907 6 лет назад +5

    To be or nots to be...dat be de question homey

  • @MacKenziePoet
    @MacKenziePoet 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's not great. Essiedu needs to learn to stop replacing the text with so many injections of self-induced emotions. The soliloquy is the ultimate test of an actor's intelligence. This is a disaster. Not every actor is really made for Shakespeare.

  • @larsmucklejohn6861
    @larsmucklejohn6861 5 лет назад +4

    Tennant did it better. Just saying.

    • @wjsproductions1784
      @wjsproductions1784 2 года назад

      No one’s gonna be mad at you for having that opinion. They’re both great!

  • @Revelian1982
    @Revelian1982 Год назад

    Terrible over-acting.

  • @stevenyourke7901
    @stevenyourke7901 2 года назад +1

    Give me Gielgud, Olivier, Burton. This is awful. Here, Hamlet is dressed like a clown, a court jester. Is he going to a party? He should be dressed all in black, still in mourning for his father. He should be wearing an “inky (black) cloak”! The gesticulations and grimaces are all wrong. This is a somber meditation on death, it should be spoken in a sober and manly way, while maintaining a sense of the poetic rhythm. This actor lacks the necessary gravitas. He sounds like a gay guy who just broke up with his boyfriend, he’s much too effeminate to play Hamlet.

    • @wjsproductions1784
      @wjsproductions1784 2 года назад +4

      Even though Hamlet is one of the more effeminate protagonists in the Shakespeare canon? To the point where he has been played by actual women many times over the last couple centuries?

    • @drymant
      @drymant 10 месяцев назад

      Wow, they really let anyone write any old tripe here, don't they?! Your ignorance is amusing.

    • @drymant
      @drymant 10 месяцев назад

      @@wjsproductions1784 Women haven't played Hamlet because he's effeminate. They play Hamlet because it's a challenge. Although some unwisely believe they bring more to the character. They do not.

    • @wjsproductions1784
      @wjsproductions1784 9 месяцев назад

      @@drymant why not?

    • @wjsproductions1784
      @wjsproductions1784 9 месяцев назад

      @@drymant Oh really? Please elaborate.

  • @zippo4042
    @zippo4042 6 лет назад +4

    Dislike this performance

  • @crazymaner2003
    @crazymaner2003 7 лет назад +2

    I'm surprised the RSC missed the fact that Hamlet is a Danish prince.

    • @The90slim90
      @The90slim90 6 лет назад +40

      Hamlet is a fictional character in a fictional story. Nothing wrong with changing up the setting, there have been enough traditional ones.

    • @roseagnew2621
      @roseagnew2621 6 лет назад +9

      crazymaner2003 Dont be Racist

    • @thalissonguerra8502
      @thalissonguerra8502 6 лет назад +17

      It's clear that your cultural level is very poor.

    • @malcolmmccarthyherrera7335
      @malcolmmccarthyherrera7335 6 лет назад +7

      Mate...

    • @jdgoodwin325
      @jdgoodwin325 6 лет назад +26

      Olivier wasn't Danish. Neither is Jude Law, David Tennant, Kenneth Branagh, or Jonathan Pryce. Yet all of them managed brilliant performances. It's called ACTING.

  • @Steve20127
    @Steve20127 5 лет назад +1

    Bloody awful. More like Hamlet Prince of the 'Hood!!

    • @davidborn4636
      @davidborn4636 4 года назад +7

      Still Better then 90 % of the White Boys I have ever seen play the role...come one man!

    • @tripwire3992
      @tripwire3992 4 года назад +9

      Stop being racist

    • @nathankelly2126
      @nathankelly2126 4 года назад +11

      To you he is a man of colour who dirties your eyes, you can not see past this mans pigment, where I see beauty, you see a human who is lesser than yourself, but it is the other way around, you are a disgrace to this world, we shall not stand for this racism, now crawl away to whatever hole you came from or enlighten yourself to the world we live in and apologies for your idiocy.

    • @brighte2712
      @brighte2712 3 года назад

      @@nathankelly2126 well said , mate👏

    • @seanb2108
      @seanb2108 Год назад

      Give it a rest