Dear Simon Russell Beale
Dear Mr. Beale,
While I greatly enjoyed listening to Hamlet instead of reading it i did not much like your performance. Listening to the book was good for me because the tape kept being stopped at confusing parts so we could talk about what is going on. When i read shakespearean plays i find them extremely hard to understand because you truly have to analyze them line by line. You Mr. Beale did not help me yourself though. You expressed way too much emotion in some of your lines, even to the point of being annoying in my mind.
Your voice wasn’t exactly how i pictured Hamlet’s either. I would imagine hamlet to have a much younger, lively voice, at least in some parts. In other scenes where Hamlet was distressed or scared or emotional, i felt you over did these emotions to the point of almost being annoying. But then again it could just be that i don’t much like shakespearean plays either way. Sorry i think your voice is annoying, i’m sure you will get accolades from others though.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
ye brother, i thought he just didnt fit the part to hamlet, dont get me wrong,he was a gooda actor, but he was just too old. he also sounded really crazy which the other one played off as just being better then you