I actually like how this production handles the inevitable oedipus complex reading of the play. I personally never really agreed with that analysis as a true justification for Hamlet's hatred of his mother, and I like how this production really highlights that it all stems from Hamlet's grief of him losing his father and how he feels his mother "betrayed" her former husband. The moment at 4:40 where he sexually assaults her does not come across as Hamlet fulfilling some sort of fantasy or repressed desire (to me at least), it's more that he's so caught up in his rage and hurt during this confrontation that he does something to make his mother feel just as disgusted and horrified as he has been feeling since she married Claudius, when in his right mind he'd never think to do such a thing. It doesn't at all excuse him threatening and assaulting her, but Scott very clearly shows this is a man in the midst of a breakdown. Not a poetic and romanticized one either - it's raw and ugly and traumatizing for everyone involved.
This is my first time watching clips of Andrew's portrayal of Hamlet, and anything Hamlet in general, but I can agree with you here. The facial expressions, the line delivery, the raw anger he had towards his mother marrying his uncle after his father's upsetting death is very well displayed here. And in the midst of that rage did he do that evil act.
I concur wholeheartedly! I’ve seen a few different productions, and they’re all really well done. But, that being said, Andrew Scott is the only actor that blows me away. His “interpretation” is unlike any other. His is the only version where I feel like the actor is living in the moment, saying the words for the first time, and actively listening! So people may not like it because it’s so different, but that’s exactly why so many believe his performance of Hamlet has no equal. He put in his contract that a significant number of tickets could be purchased by people at a good price, and encourage children to understand Shakespeare. I adore this guy. I only wish I could have seen it live on stage. 🔥
Scott portrays Hamlet as such a regressed, Oedipal character, but yet such a real, believable one. His performance is disturbing and heartbreaking/beautiful all at once. I've only seen this scene and his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, but he is my favorite Hamlet from these alone!
@@writer641 Shakespeare does not hate women, and is in fact very mindful of the dignity of women. We are fascinated by Hamlet, but Ophelia retains our sympathy; which wouldn't happen if Shakespeare was "misogynist." Also, Shakespeare evidently pined for The Fair Youth of the sonnets, but he never expresses disgust or hatred that he was essentially in love with a man. The modern term "gay" doesn't have much to do with Shakespeare. If Hamlet is an extension of Shakespeare, which he is, then so is Falstaff, Rosalind, King Lear, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Violet, Bottom, Juliet, Julius Caesar... Shakespeare is unlimited and does not reduce to our pat formulas.
Andrew Scott's version of Hamlet is indeed unique, terrifying and amazing in the same time. Just imagine a person, who was betrayed by the dearest people of his own and put in such hell because of their extremely vicious egoism. The ones with clear head which plant madness with their actions into minds only to receive clear and just behaviour back. This is the scariest part and it makes Andrew's Hamlet so disgusting and appealing. To show the dare, provocative anger, pain and frustration by dissolving mind is needed quite a strong and static actor's spirit. His acting blows my mind
@@literaturecomealive She was a legendary Isabella in 1984 and gave a stunning re-interpretation of Cressida in 1985. Her gravity and intelligence really anchor the scene for Andrew Scott.
Ho-ly fuuuck. I wish I could get to see this whole play, it is breathtaking, chilling. The desperation in Hamlet's voice, the pure grief... it just made me broke down in tears. Andrew is such an amazing performer
I know it's a small thing compared to a lot of the dialogue and acting choices, but when Juliet coughs and Andrew barely skips a beat, just incorporates it into his lines with an encouraging thump on the back, I'm like yes, this is what acting should be. Precise, but flexible enough to embrace a little uncertainty.
English is not my first language, and I have seen several Hamlet adaptation in the past. This is so far the most "digestible" adaptation I have seen as Shakespeare is difficult to understand (even for native speakers, I think), but with this I can easily make sense of what they are trying to say based on the intonation and body language. Kudos to Andrew Scott! :D
For the VERY first time watching HAMLET, I understand EVERY word, and this performance from both actors, is MASTERFUL. Mind blowing work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I do not like the directing, but I have to admit that it is absolutely understandable. Which is much more than can be said about 90% of all classical plays.
Oh my friggin' God...he gave me chills. How does he do this night after night after night for months on end? I was wrung out just watching him for 10 minutes! Calling him an amazing actor feels like underselling his talent 💕
Prince Hamlet is 30 only if you believe the Gravedigger, whose credibility on the matter should be questioned. the gravedigger rarely answers Hamlet's questions in a direct manner. He delights in trying to one-up his social superior, in the course of which he botches some Latin phrases, and given the time and his occupation is unlikely to have mastered numerical literacy. Prince Hamlet is a student at Wittenberg, so he is closer to 20 than 30.
The teenager version is quite right. Hamlet is fundamentally about puberty, in my opinion. Hamlet has studied abroad, learned sience and culture, and now comes back to find that his relatives are vikings and his mother has remarried. He seeks his boundaries, but noone is strong enough to give him boundaries. Not Rosenkranz and Güldenstern, not Gertrude, certainly not Polonius. The only character in the play to withstand Hamlet is the Gravedigger. Everyone is a doormat, but death. Hamlet proceeds to throw a tantrum and kill a lot of people.
'cruel to be kind', 'hoisted by his with his petard' - two common phrases from just one scene. in the to be or not to be soliloquy we have 'shuffle off this mortal coil' and' therein lies the rub'. Shakespeare - the greatest.
I’m doing Medea by Euripides, and as a teen playing ancient adults it’s pretty challenging to find the right tactics to use but watching them preform has helped me with showing anger and helplessness and their is ALOT of that in greek tragedies. I’ve learned a lot about using surprise and keeping things interesting from them, andrew Scott especially, from watching his acting. Absolutely amazing.
This makes me want to see Hamlet but of course only if Andrew Scott is performing it. I live where the Shakespeare festival runs in Canada and Hamlet is frequently preformed but no one has ever convinced me of the tragedy that it was meant to be until this. He is tormented by the moral pigmy that is his mother and the horror of her betrayal and he is pleading with her to see herself as she really is and to become a mother a man can be proud of. This is what real humans can relate to.
Just watched this via your link so thank you. I have seen Hamlet on stage before, but this production really helped me understand what was actually going on!! Loved it!, All the performances were excellent, particularly the man of the hour Mr Andrew Scott 🥰🥰❤️❤️
Andrew Scott is the only thing that can get me intetested in Shakespeare. I mean of course I know Shakespeare is a big deal but to me his writing always seemed too highbrow and unapproachable like you have to do your homework before you even attempt to get a taste of it. So thank you, Andrew ❤️
I agree that he makes Shakespeare incredibly accessible for a modern sensibility. I would also encourage you to watch the Catherine Tate/David Tennant version of Much Ado About Nothing, which in a different but equal way, is it's own masterclass in interpreting Shakespearean text for a modern audience.
Are those real blanks in the pistol?? If so, Jesus Christ the amount of trust that she put in him for pointing it inches away from her with actual blanks in the gun
On the Graham Norton Show, Scott recounts an incident during one of the 'Hamlet' performances wherein he actually did accidentally 'shoot' Juliet Stevenson in the face! In his words, because she is such a "theatre animal", she was fully able to roll with it and later told him she "loved it".
I need to talk to Shakespeare about the way he has them go at each other about her marriage to Claudius after Hamlet has just killed a man. Kinda funny.
The idea of your own mother marrying her late husband's brother weeks after his death - thus pointing to their adultery beforehand - is quite novel and harrowing. He had every cause to loathe her but was held back by the ghost's command to "leave her to heaven."
Btw, this production makes it so that the characters can use cameras and bugs and earpieces for surveillance and spying purposes, then, for no apparent reason, Polonius chooses to hide behind a curtain. Things about Hamlet.
I have read Hamlet in school forever ago. But I couldn't envision the emotions and missed the tone on a lot of the story. This is the first time I understand the complexity.
I actually like how this production handles the inevitable oedipus complex reading of the play. I personally never really agreed with that analysis as a true justification for Hamlet's hatred of his mother, and I like how this production really highlights that it all stems from Hamlet's grief of him losing his father and how he feels his mother "betrayed" her former husband. The moment at 4:40 where he sexually assaults her does not come across as Hamlet fulfilling some sort of fantasy or repressed desire (to me at least), it's more that he's so caught up in his rage and hurt during this confrontation that he does something to make his mother feel just as disgusted and horrified as he has been feeling since she married Claudius, when in his right mind he'd never think to do such a thing. It doesn't at all excuse him threatening and assaulting her, but Scott very clearly shows this is a man in the midst of a breakdown. Not a poetic and romanticized one either - it's raw and ugly and traumatizing for everyone involved.
This is my first time watching clips of Andrew's portrayal of Hamlet, and anything Hamlet in general, but I can agree with you here. The facial expressions, the line delivery, the raw anger he had towards his mother marrying his uncle after his father's upsetting death is very well displayed here. And in the midst of that rage did he do that evil act.
The moment he starts weeping when he joins his parents hands. He's just an overwhelmed kid who wants his dad.
That’s when I started to weep, really just a boy mad with grief
Okay but I laughed entirely too hard when hamlet pulled out a glock
I don't remember it any other way. Hamlet gets into an argument with his mother and then pulls out the strap
@@elijahdominguez6366 To be strapped up, or not to be strapped up. That is the question..
Seriously.
Why? What would you have it be, a 9 mm?
@@cremebrulee4759choke hold
Jesus, hes chilling as an actor. This scene, the intensity. WoW
I concur wholeheartedly! I’ve seen a few different productions, and they’re all really well done. But, that being said, Andrew Scott is the only actor that blows me away. His “interpretation” is unlike any other. His is the only version where I feel like the actor is living in the moment, saying the words for the first time, and actively listening! So people may not like it because it’s so different, but that’s exactly why so many believe his performance of Hamlet has no equal. He put in his contract that a significant number of tickets could be purchased by people at a good price, and encourage children to understand Shakespeare. I adore this guy. I only wish I could have seen it live on stage. 🔥
Every time I watch this. Im floored all over again. W. O. W.
Scott portrays Hamlet as such a regressed, Oedipal character, but yet such a real, believable one. His performance is disturbing and heartbreaking/beautiful all at once. I've only seen this scene and his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, but he is my favorite Hamlet from these alone!
Take a look at Christopher Plummer's Hamlet (BBC, 1964).
@@writer641 Shakespeare does not hate women, and is in fact very mindful of the dignity of women. We are fascinated by Hamlet, but Ophelia retains our sympathy; which wouldn't happen if Shakespeare was "misogynist."
Also, Shakespeare evidently pined for The Fair Youth of the sonnets, but he never expresses disgust or hatred that he was essentially in love with a man. The modern term "gay" doesn't have much to do with Shakespeare.
If Hamlet is an extension of Shakespeare, which he is, then so is Falstaff, Rosalind, King Lear, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Violet, Bottom, Juliet, Julius Caesar... Shakespeare is unlimited and does not reduce to our pat formulas.
@@writer641 Look up Amelia Lanier
i’ve never really understood shakespeare until seeing scott play.
Andrew Scott's version of Hamlet is indeed unique, terrifying and amazing in the same time. Just imagine a person, who was betrayed by the dearest people of his own and put in such hell because of their extremely vicious egoism. The ones with clear head which plant madness with their actions into minds only to receive clear and just behaviour back. This is the scariest part and it makes Andrew's Hamlet so disgusting and appealing. To show the dare, provocative anger, pain and frustration by dissolving mind is needed quite a strong and static actor's spirit.
His acting blows my mind
And honey, you should see me in a crown...
Saphiraaa a This comment deserves more recognition.
yass
He's amazing, but can we talk about how wonderful Juliet Stevenson is? Match made in heaven
she matches him completely
honestly everyone in this production was stellar
She was a great Antigone in 1988.
@@literaturecomealive She was a legendary Isabella in 1984 and gave a stunning re-interpretation of Cressida in 1985. Her gravity and intelligence really anchor the scene for Andrew Scott.
Ho-ly fuuuck. I wish I could get to see this whole play, it is breathtaking, chilling. The desperation in Hamlet's voice, the pure grief... it just made me broke down in tears. Andrew is such an amazing performer
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As riveting as Scott is, Juliet Stevenson's powerhouse performance can't be understated here.
This... this is what Drama is supposed to be. Peak writing, peak acting, peak scene - chilling with intensity.
I know it's a small thing compared to a lot of the dialogue and acting choices, but when Juliet coughs and Andrew barely skips a beat, just incorporates it into his lines with an encouraging thump on the back, I'm like yes, this is what acting should be. Precise, but flexible enough to embrace a little uncertainty.
was that cough for the play or did she get dehydrated?
when he pulled out the gun i SCREAMED
Gertrude was like ‘you wouldn’t murder me’ and he just raised the gun up
I laughed so hard
@khandwa style Modern Hamlet is a badass
English is not my first language, and I have seen several Hamlet adaptation in the past. This is so far the most "digestible" adaptation I have seen as Shakespeare is difficult to understand (even for native speakers, I think), but with this I can easily make sense of what they are trying to say based on the intonation and body language. Kudos to Andrew Scott! :D
I totally agree!! Amazing sensibility
This play still kicks us in the guts and gives us chills 400 years later....amazing
For the VERY first time watching HAMLET, I understand EVERY word, and this performance from both actors, is MASTERFUL. Mind blowing work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I do not like the directing, but I have to admit that it is absolutely understandable. Which is much more than can be said about 90% of all classical plays.
God I love Andrew. He’s just brilliant.
same
2:34 the start of my favorite speech of Hamlet's, such righteous anger and indignation. Amazing acting
When he cries for his father like a small child. Pleading for his mother to remember. A truly great performance.
The most powerful scene in the whole play! So many emotions!
I agree. I could watch this scene over and over and over. They are both so great that it makes your eyes pop out of their sockets!!!!
@@andrewscottarchive5482 Andrew is such a brilliant actor. I love his work.
Oh my friggin' God...he gave me chills. How does he do this night after night after night for months on end? I was wrung out just watching him for 10 minutes! Calling him an amazing actor feels like underselling his talent 💕
Hamlet when I’m reading: sad crazy man
Andrew Scott as Hamlet: moody teenager with gun
Hamlet is a kid. He is supposed to be like that
@@popadumitru2404 He is 30 years old...
Here I sat reading this thinking it was a joke until I watched Hamlet pull out a gun 🤣
Prince Hamlet is 30 only if you believe the Gravedigger, whose credibility on the matter should be questioned. the gravedigger rarely answers Hamlet's questions in a direct manner. He delights in trying to one-up his social superior, in the course of which he botches some Latin phrases, and given the time and his occupation is unlikely to have mastered numerical literacy. Prince Hamlet is a student at Wittenberg, so he is closer to 20 than 30.
The teenager version is quite right. Hamlet is fundamentally about puberty, in my opinion. Hamlet has studied abroad, learned sience and culture, and now comes back to find that his relatives are vikings and his mother has remarried.
He seeks his boundaries, but noone is strong enough to give him boundaries. Not Rosenkranz and Güldenstern, not Gertrude, certainly not Polonius. The only character in the play to withstand Hamlet is the Gravedigger.
Everyone is a doormat, but death.
Hamlet proceeds to throw a tantrum and kill a lot of people.
I read "Hamlet Comforts Gertrude", then he shot someone and I was like: Dude, what a weird way to comfort her...?!
LOL LOL True! I hadn't thought of that when I came up with the title for the video!!!
"I must be cruel, only to be kind."
I appreciate Kenneth Branagh, but this performance is breath taking.
Taino137 Same.
Agree
Absolutely Breathtaking. I keep re-watching it.
i frakking wept through this
Andrew Scott makes me want to try to understand Shakespeare.
Boy, are these two great actors doing a thrillingly tense job in their respective roles & in this scene together.
This performance is so emotionally charged...
This is such a powerful scene. This performance was so brilliantly casted
This is so well done, so clearly interpreted. I understand.
Amazing. He inhabits the character. No better actor in the world.
agree
'cruel to be kind', 'hoisted by his with his petard' - two common phrases from just one scene.
in the to be or not to be soliloquy we have 'shuffle off this mortal coil' and' therein lies the rub'.
Shakespeare - the greatest.
That stare at 1:13 is just unbelievably powerful.
I’m doing Medea by Euripides, and as a teen playing ancient adults it’s pretty challenging to find the right tactics to use but watching them preform has helped me with showing anger and helplessness and their is ALOT of that in greek tragedies. I’ve learned a lot about using surprise and keeping things interesting from them, andrew Scott especially, from watching his acting. Absolutely amazing.
I hope your play went well!
07:05 Wow, unbelivable........speechless.......
I am not a fan of modern interpretations of Shakespeare...until now. This is brilliant...absolutely brilliant.
Brilliant. Pure brilliance this man radiates.
hamlet trauma bonds with his mother
This makes me want to see Hamlet but of course only if Andrew Scott is performing it. I live where the Shakespeare festival runs in Canada and Hamlet is frequently preformed but no one has ever convinced me of the tragedy that it was meant to be until this. He is tormented by the moral pigmy that is his mother and the horror of her betrayal and he is pleading with her to see herself as she really is and to become a mother a man can be proud of. This is what real humans can relate to.
Good Grief. This is absolutely gripping. What a treasure this is.
This is the most intense piece of acting I have ever seen
This is one of my favourite scenes ever written. Done really well too. I'm so happy to have found this.
I wish I could see all of this, what great performances
Just watched this via your link so thank you. I have seen Hamlet on stage before, but this production really helped me understand what was actually going on!! Loved it!, All the performances were excellent, particularly the man of the hour Mr Andrew Scott 🥰🥰❤️❤️
Look, Moriarity got a gun again.
Do you think Gertrude's cough at 8:00 was actually Juliet Stevenson coughing? It sounded real. Cool bit of improvising by Andrew if so.
I love this potrayal of hamlet but man some of the zooms and cuts make it seem like a damn comedy
Powerful...I wish I could have seen the performance. Andrew, I’m speechless...phenomenal deliverance of Hamlet!!!
For me David Tennant did this scene just perfectly... the madness, the chaos and the oediple element... Scott is still great
Such a powerful performance! Is he like this the entire play? Amazing, Andrew Scott!
Andrew Scott is the only thing that can get me intetested in Shakespeare. I mean of course I know Shakespeare is a big deal but to me his writing always seemed too highbrow and unapproachable like you have to do your homework before you even attempt to get a taste of it. So thank you, Andrew ❤️
I agree that he makes Shakespeare incredibly accessible for a modern sensibility. I would also encourage you to watch the Catherine Tate/David Tennant version of Much Ado About Nothing, which in a different but equal way, is it's own masterclass in interpreting Shakespearean text for a modern audience.
Where can we find the whole play?
I feel that missing this play is like missing an important piece of my life.
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been looking for a link to this!!! thank you!!!!
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Elise L no problem enjoy 😊
@@neptunestardust Do you have links to other national theatre live screenings ?? Please say yes
oo i need too full of this bbc performance. where i can find it. ? i already open this link but there nothing just wrote the tub ''file not found'' :(
What an brilliant actor! ❤️
I watched that play three times in Almeida and once after it moved to the west end, and boy it still gets me. What an unrivalled Hamlet.
I love at 4:57 when she looks directly into the camera like "Oh, no. This kid is nuts."
She is amazing.
0:53 Not even a minute in and I am already blown away
I want to live in London entirely for this - being able to see these plays in person.
0:46 I thought he was going to suplex her lol
Andrew Scott fits so good in the role of Hamlet !!!
Acting like Andrews make me love theatre and plays
This IS Hamlet....
Phwoar hes so hot and a bloody good actor too!
Are those real blanks in the pistol?? If so, Jesus Christ the amount of trust that she put in him for pointing it inches away from her with actual blanks in the gun
On the Graham Norton Show, Scott recounts an incident during one of the 'Hamlet' performances wherein he actually did accidentally 'shoot' Juliet Stevenson in the face! In his words, because she is such a "theatre animal", she was fully able to roll with it and later told him she "loved it".
My God he's terrifying!
I DO wonder if poor Juliet had bruises ! He was SO convincingly brutal & physical!
This is my first time watching a play and I fucking love it.
WoW 😮 He moved me to tears! 😭 Oh! To have seen this live. ❤
I read the title as "Hamlet Comforts Gertrude" and let me say this is not what I expected
Andrew Scott is scary good
Andrew Scott is mesmerising 😍 2bf both of them are amazing, this scene is intense
He’s mind-blowingly talented
a hamlet that really allows the connection to The oresteia, Oedipus and the oedipus complex! as a lover of greek text it makes me so happy!
Good lord. This is new to me, and I'm stunned.
It just goes to show one how difficult this scene is. And acting in general.
Do you have footage saved of the whole thing?! I watched it on BBC iPlayer but it's gone now. Really wish it was available on DVD.
@@neptunestardust Unfortunately the link isn't active anymore...do you have any other idea on where to watch this play?
videovedo no unfortunately, i am sorry about that. If I manage to find another way of accessing the play, i shall message here
@@neptunestardust ineed this link too please help
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Guaaau! Andrew Scott its amazing... The BEST performance of Hamlet... 😍
I need to talk to Shakespeare about the way he has them go at each other about her marriage to Claudius after Hamlet has just killed a man. Kinda funny.
Damn that was so clear. I wonder what was the size of the theatre? What was the capacity?
Their Excelence bluries the line between actor and character, it's absolutelly unimaginable
The idea of your own mother marrying her late husband's brother weeks after his death - thus pointing to their adultery beforehand - is quite novel and harrowing. He had every cause to loathe her but was held back by the ghost's command to "leave her to heaven."
Juliet Stevenson is the highlight here for me.
the hand sTHE HANDS
I may never see John Barrymore's performance at the Haymarket Theatre, yet I have to say Andrew's has to come very close to perfection.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
It always amazing for me these actors can remember scripts in theater play
This is fantastic!
Btw, this production makes it so that the characters can use cameras and bugs and earpieces for surveillance and spying purposes, then, for no apparent reason, Polonius chooses to hide behind a curtain.
Things about Hamlet.
If we had seen this in school, i might have actually understood Shakespeare.
PERFECT, you make it contemporary and universal at the time, gestures, spellings look like part of the script. Thanks for sharing your talento
This is so amazing 😭😭😍😍
My favorite Hamlet. Other actors portrayed Hamlet. But Andrew Scott BECOMES Hamlet.
This. Is. Fantastic. Wow, and here I was downplaying theater over film. Haha
Hamlet got a glockkk???
This performance was so intimate and raw.
I have read Hamlet in school forever ago. But I couldn't envision the emotions and missed the tone on a lot of the story. This is the first time I understand the complexity.
where can this be purchased or viewed in full?
Shakespeare performed by people who know its meaning is so powerful…!
Wonderful, brilliant work 💜👏🏻
This was astonishing. I wish I could have seen the play
you know, with the old English I couldn't help but get drawn into a pre modern world. That was up until he picked up the gun lol
I love Andrew Scott 🤤🤤😭😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Where can we find the whole play? I'll even pay to watch it if i need to. I need this in my life !