#cladius has a bloody ear from his very first scene which symbolizes how he already has blood on his hands (rip hamlet sr) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

agentravensong · 2 years ago

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hamlet update: they’ve painted red splotches on the stage in the spots where gertrude, laertes, and cladius die. the paint is there from act 1 but you don’t realize why it’s there until the characters start dropping in act 5 scene 2. something something predestination something something to be a character in a play is to be trapped in a time loop something something they’ve been dead from the beginning

#hamlet #narrative nonsense #there’s also a really cool thing they’re doing with the blood makeup #where hamlet gets blood on his face during intermission (meant to be polonius’s)#cladius has a bloody ear from his very first scene which symbolizes how he already has blood on his hands (rip hamlet sr)#and then gertrude has blood around her neck when she comes in in the last scene of act 4 after. well.#that’s for another post :)#i hope our director doesn’t mind me giving away all his ideas /j

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