Hamlet Play

In going to the Lantern Theater and seeing Hamlet performed, I was surprised. Mostly in the way they used the stage. It was small, but they used it well. I couldn’t pull myself away from the play personally. I was very captivated because the actors seemed to love what they were doing and when the actors love it, it is so much easier to pull the audience in. If I had the chance to, I would love to go back and see another play performed by the Lantern Theater.

My favorite part of the play was the set. I’ve never seen a play that had no separate set for each scene and the way that they made it work, amazed me. Even without props you could still tell where they were for each scene. And I feel that because they didn’t have any types of painted backgrounds, it made the play more fun to watch because you could use your imagination to picture the scenery so I’m sure every person had a different picture of where the scenes took place.

The actor’s interactivity with the audience helped to move an otherwise long play, very quickly. The fact that actors tried to bring in audience members seemed to keep everyone awake even through the long boring monologues and soliloquies. I think that the actor who played Hamlet seemed the most interesting. He was very funny and acrobatic. I loved just watching him because of how much he seemed to love what he was doing. When someone has that much passion about their work, it’s hard to not be interested.