#UPDATE: i just looked on internet archive for the original radio play production from 1978 to see if it did the same as the 2007 one | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

agentravensong · 2 years ago

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considering making a post about how horatio is... used? accounted for? in the productions of r&g are dead that i've watched and listened to cause 3/4 (not counting the movie) have, as almost certainly unintentional consequences of their choices, gotten me thinking about that one post i made and frothing at the mouth a bit, in different ways

#not today cause i'm sleepy but. perhaps tomorrow (as a distraction from the work i actually have to do)#ragad #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #the ones i'm thinking of specifically are:#ntl (2017) having their horatio be double-cast as a silent extra in the background of some scenes with r&g talking to the king & queen #players' ring having the Player play horatio at the ending #and the 2007 radio drama having hamlet read out his letter to horatio during the pirate attack (to help explain what's happening)#but then cutting his lines at the end entirely #and ALSO cutting “he that thou knowest thine” from the letter. which... i'll save my thoughts for the post #UPDATE: i just looked on internet archive for the original radio play production from 1978 to see if it did the same as the 2007 one #and it basically does re: the letter #(including cutting ''he that thou knowest thine'' - though i think now i get why (why in the not brain-rotty sense that is))#but it does basically the whole ending bit of hamlet starting from some of the prince's last lines #so horatio does get to be the one who closes it out #i doubt he shows up any earlier - based on the credits he's not doubled with anyone - and i'm not checking to find out

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