Who are North-North-West, part III: Hedda/Hamlet

Good e'en! My name is Hedda and I am a 17 year old dork who likes to dress in stripes. I have a large interest for theatre (well duh) and Shakespeare; my favourite plays being the tragedies of Hamlet and Richard II. When I am not reading Shakespeare I often read other stuff (mostly fiction and poetry), write, photograph, watch films/TV-series/stage footage (though mostly Doctor Who), draw, craft, play ukulele etc.

Me, wearing particularly fancy clothes

In this production I play the part of the famously moody (and possibly schizophrenic) prince, Hamlet; the son of the previous king of Denmark, nephew to the current king Claudius, son of the queen Getrude, betrothed to Ophelia.

As he is one of my very favourite characters in literature I am very glad to have the opportunity to play him. It also involves a certain strain, but I suppose that's part of the fun. What makes me so interested in the character is partly his madness (how much of it is pretend; how much is not? etc.) and therein the opportunity to act as weird as one pleases, while still portraying a very intelligent and thoughtful character.

This is only one of the many aspects that makes the character so interesting, but if I were to deal with all of them in this text I would probably bore you to death, and I would rather wait with doing that until I am on the stage.

In playing such a well-known and studied character there is both lots of fun and lots of difficulties; for example, try to say "To be or not to be" without sounding like a cliché; at least I find it difficult, so I try to sort of remove myself from all that fame of the character and just do my own thing (well, I say "try"). I do, however, take inspiration from David Tennant's and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlets (and try to stay as far away from Laurence Olivier's Hamlet as possible).

I suppose you will see lots more of me here later on, and therefore will leave you for now. Adieu~