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Hamlet - processes involved developing character and how key themes and characteristics were effectively portrayed

• looking at context of the scene = helped me understand what triggers him (mention of his mother) + the facade of his madness but also his security and confidence

• Verse speaking - looking at internal stage directions and understanding everything we say

• Looking at it through different lenses = we focused on dynamics of coercive control, with Ophelia used as a political pawn —> key themes of destructive nature of feigned madness

Hamlet - role of character within the context of the play as a whole

• start of play (cinflicting roles) = mourning father (filial duty) and expectations of princes and men + literal role (eponymous figure, Prince of Denmark)

• Middle of the play = vengeful son and hero/antihero = desperately seeking revenge after discovering the truth, taking many risks and being harmed by them

• End of play = warning, didactic nature of the play, questions value of human life (his own and Claudius’), manly and filial duty

Catherine - process in developing character and how key themes and characteristics portrayed

• explored relationship between Catherine and Eddie, and to what degree each of them is complicit for the impropriety of their closeness = addressed by B (objective observer) in the play that C is a woman and is somewhat culpable for her close bond with Eddie

• Impact of claustrophobic living on the intensity of that relationship

Catherine - role of character in context of whole play

• symbolises victim of inappropriate desire

• Naïveté

• Growth into womanhood and maternity

• Escaping submission and victim hood

• Complexity of the issue = AM presents the complexity of domestic issues and Complicity

Summarise a practitioners key principles and explain how they have influenced acting

• konstantin Stanislavsky = father of modern theatre

• Emotional memory = theatrical impact (naturalistic, media and film acting, heath ledger genuine and personal) + social (influenced type of plays written = restoration breeches parts)

• Immersive acting () = impacted playwrights and actors, shift to immersion in theatre = no fourth wall, dark, quiet