#i've also seen him as marc antony and as lysander and i KNOW he's played orestes and every day i weep that i'll never see that recording

[lizardrosen]

it has been a WILD experience to watch in the space of a week and a half, Luke Thompson in the following roles

Laertes in the Almeida Theater production of Hamlet, full of joy and love and excitement but restrained by his roles as his father's son and an older brother, and eventually overcome by grief as he loses both the people whose relationship give him that identity

Hiram Bingham IV in Transatlantic, the Jr. Vice Consul who is literally the only government member interested in helping refugees escape Marseilles. He's formal and reserved but with a quiet sense of humor, and he's ready to endanger himself when he knows that's the correct thing to do, and uses his disarming goofiness to get places he wouldn't be allowed otherwise

Benedict Bridgerton, the second son, free to do as he wishes but convinced he'll never amount to as much. Much looser and relaxed in his acting style because he may be from a proper family in a more strict society, but he's also easy to dismiss as just a frivolous rich kid, and just as he starts to flourish he decides he was a sham

Edgar in the NTL production of King Lear, definitely the most strictly regimented of the lot, at least to start with. He's the oldest son, the legitimate son, and he's a military man by practice if not by nature, so he has to be perfect because he's seen what Gloucester will do to a son who isn't. So he follows the rules until the rules let him down and then he lets go of it completely and has to relearn how to exist as a human, all while grieving his family and his former life.

He's got the range!!!