| "No icecream
Ofelia!" Ofelia is not allowed to do what she wants.
For example she may not eat icecream. |
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| Klara and Mina
are amused by themselves and eachother when they are acting
men. |
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the project "Hamlet with my neighbours" I worked
with my neighbours - Amanda, Agnes, Mina, Nike, Nelly,
Klara, och Torun - a gang of seven 10-year old girls.
At home on our backyard we worked together
on the drama Hamlet of Shakespeare. In a videowork
I take up the process from exercises to finished performance.
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Ofelia (Nike) gets the idea together with her friend
Horatia (Amanda) that she should pretend to be crazy to scare her
father and brother whom wants to control her.
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We met every afternoon on our backyard, for seven weeks,
to discuss the story of Hamlet and practice the scenes. Astrid Askberger
was engaged to videofilm our work. The girls used eachother and me, as
public and critics, when practicing the scenes. In the end of the process
they got their decided roles and they where very engaged in the story
as a whole and in eachothers roles. They performed their play in the backyard
for neighbours and relatives the 1 juli 2004.
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Following changes are added into our version
of the Hamletstory:
- Ofelia has a friend whom is called Horatia.
- Ofelia asks if she also may go to France just like her brother
Laertes.
- Ofelia decides to pretend to be crazy. (In
the original version it´s only Hamlet that pretends to be
crazy while Ofelia becomes crazy).
- Ofelia laughs at Hamlet when he tells her to go to a nunnery.
- Ofelia jokes with the court through making fright of herself during
the theatre.
- Ofelia terrorises the queen and the king and her brother Laertes,
pretending to be crazy.
- Ofelia pretends to be dead. She rents a doctor whom should
say that she is dead.
- Ofelia walks away from her grave. She got tired of pretending
to be dead.
- Ofelia challenges the queen in a duell and wins half the kingdom.
- Ofelia shares the kingdom with her friend Horatia since all the
others has died.
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| Ofelia (Nelly) pretends
to be crazy to make her surroundings unsure and confused. |
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| Klaudius the King (Klara)
speaks to Laertes (Nelly) how they should get rid of Hamlet. |
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| "To be or not to be…"
Agnes is practicing Hamlets speach while the others are listening. |
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