Re-member ME

2019.03.02

Dickie Beau의 Re-Member ME

https://www.perthfestival.com.au/event/re-member-me

러닝타임 : 약 60분
Scattered story about Hamlet, surrounding the inside of Theatre and Outside of it by Lip-synced monologue. What makes 'Hamlet' that special? between the gay identity and imagination through the story.

You should take all the recordings of all the greatest Hamlets since sound recording began, from John Gielgud, to Olivier, to Richard Burton, and channel them in an epic lip sync.’

Why is this play so iconic? And why is it done over and over again? Is it because, as Andy Lavender observed, it is seen as ‘the gateway through which an actor passes to a more exalted realm’? Or is it, as W.B. Worthen asserted, because it gives directors an opportunity to ‘authorise their own efforts by locating them under the sign of Shakespeare’? Or is it, as T.S. Eliot suggested (in his essay denouncing the play itself as an ‘artistic failure’), not because audiences are fascinated by it, nor actors, nor directors, but because it has ‘an especial temptation
for that most dangerous type of critic: the critic with a mind which is naturally of the creative order, but which through some weakness in creative power exercises itself in criticism instead’? Eliot maintained that ‘these minds often find in Hamlet a vicarious existence for their own artistic realisation’. All of these possibilities point toward a preoccupation with posterity – the desire to be remembered.

The effect
of lip-syncing parallels Yorick’s skull by also making an absence present: it makes present the idea of the person whose voice we hear, while at the same time presenting the fact that they are not there. 

I stopped searching for recordings of Hamlet to embody, and instead began making recordings of conversations with people whose memories – of the play and the part, and especially of that lost performance – 

https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/re-member-me-review