Hamlet, Thy Name is Woman. | Sara Clark | TEDxCincinnatiWomen
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2020
- Women have been playing Hamlet since the 1700s. So why does the choice to cast a female actor in Shakespeare’s largest role still matter today? Sara Clark is an actor, playing Hamlet as a woman at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in 2020. She talks about how the decision to play the Bard’s most temperamentally capricious and preternaturally intelligent character as a woman can help us imagine a better world. Learn more at: cincyshakes.com Sara Clark is a philomath and a storyteller, who believes wholeheartedly in curiosity, empathy, and the power of words. She is a resident actor, director, producer, teaching artist, and grants administrator with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, currently serving as its Associate Artistic Director. As a fourteen-year member of the CSC Resident Ensemble, she has racked up over 75 productions with CSC, tackling such roles as Rosalind, Juliet, Marc Antony, Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Macbeth, and in the spring of 2020, Hamlet. Sara is a Shakespeare mythbuster and loves teaching with CSC’s Shakespeare Summer Camp and Groundlings Program, a year-long Shakespeare intensive for high school students. She genuinely believes that one person talking to one person is the only thing that will ever change the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
The spring of 2020 production probably never happened since the pandemic was in full swing by March. However, Winter of 2022 is a arriving. Looking forward to seeing you soon. We have tickets for 2/24/22. It's going to be amazing.
Fascinating talk. Really makes you think! Look forward to seeing you play Hamlet this year!
I love this - it is so valuable to see women featured prominently in Shakespeare's works. The stories can be give new life when viewed through a different lens.
From 6:50 on. 👏 Oh my goddess, women have a mind and soul - and solutions - is it possible?
Obviously, we must have a TED(d)y talks for the next generation. Warp 10!
Stay home!!
I have never thought of Hamlet being (played by) a woman. Interesting thought, I would definitely go watch it again to see female Hamlet
Contrary to the other comments on this video, I think it’s a interesting take on the changes in status quo that have taken place in this space the last 4 centuries
I think the two key takeaways. Recent years royal Shakespeare productions have buried (unintentionally) several productions that women have taken the lead in, in ways that could be described no other way but iconic.
I'm happy csf is going this route and has a performer that is capable enough to handle it (it's a toughy for most actors).
I think placing it in modern day makes a huge difference as well, but I need to see how well that's handled first person to be sure.
Great memorization
Never put your happiness in someone else's hands.
who came here from eng class
0:50 somehow I get the impression that is gonna be the case at the end of this.
😍😍😍 Very relevant nowadays. Marvelous talk.
WOWZA! A Master's Class! A university level lecture on Hamlet....Cannot wait to see this production! BRAVA!!!
She's my niece! Obviously, I am very proud.
Folks, people, guys, GIRLS - STAY HOME!! And alive! 🌻
Self-confident 😍
No shaking hands , no shaking voice , no stuterring ! Thats so great
@B1Slee 😕
Wow
reminds me of the xfile
love this!!
Men watching this: I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me???
Hey
Modern and merit are minds apart.
Do NOT take feminine king from me
There is already so little representation 😭😭😭
your reality
*..കമന്റ് തൊഴിലാളി കീ......*
Like from kerala (india)
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prepare for cringe
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I fully understand this sentiment. For the past seven years as I led the charge in my second country Belize 🇧🇿 to coordinate a musical band and show- Some of my greatest Opposition and even SABOTAGE came from some males. Yes there were some who were very supportive but others were NOT. Even some of the public support was stymied by the fact that the typical male was NOT at the helm.
This is exactly why we need to move all the feminism efforts away from north America and into other places that actually need it
@@ryla22 The sea?
"Some males didn't enjoy my work? It must be sexism. It couldn't have been something that I did wrong. No. It must be the patriarchy."
Do you see how ridiculous you sound?
@@skyj2172 thank you
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that's a third world country
Really enjoyed this talk. It's just sad how many negative comments I'm seeing; I don't think these men would be so bold to express their misogyny were it an irl discussion (not if they wanted to maintain any of their relationships with the women in their lives, anyway).
Or, perhaps, men simply disagree with her. Also, I've seen plenty of arguments between women and men about this topic that didn't end in the disbanding of their relationship. Even so, why would you end a relationship with someone simply because they have an opposing political view. Thats sounds very toxic and intolerant.
Men AND women probably hated this because of how many times we've seen this exact same idea spouted over and over again. Nobody wants to hear it again society understands your mesage and science knows you're wrong. Only the people who don't know a lot or don't know how to do proper research are feminists, everyone else (in my opinion) just wants feminism to chill out a bit so it stops getting crammed down their throats.
Edit: changed "and" at the beginning because I accendentally made it look like : -AND-
It doesn’t matter who plays it, but I think hamlet should be played As a man because that’s what’s the story and plot says he is
Ya
Yeah, one of Hamlet’s major personality is being a total misogynistic a-hole to women, believing to be whores and lustful. If Hamlet is played as a female… it would seem more self-hatred and low self-esteem I suppose? Unless female Hamlet would be played younger (in her 20’s or teens) and her mother was still able to have children. Then she could be played a jealous and angry character since her mother married her husband’s brother to attempt having a ‘true heir’ and taking female Hamlet’s role as a future ruler since, males go first in line of succession despite’s having older sisters back then.
Second 🤷🤷
LOL damn this blew my mind, smart oppressed individual. Yet she had all the freedom and TED time to express an oppressed woman's voice on a GLOBAL platform. The cruelty and favoritism is brutal, no one understands lol 😅😅
Sara, why art thou Sara? Or in other words: What's going on here? 🙄
Hallands Menved you just asked why she is Sara😂
Salah Usufi. Yes, it's a slightly adapted quote from Shakespeare's Haml.., sorry Romeo And Juliet.
In other words: awakening is not falling in love. Or: if you are not Romeo, why she must be Ophelia?
Why, Maria Knez, do you assume I'd have her be Ophelia? And if *_you_* understand what the meaning of this TedX talk is, would you please explain? I don't get it.
Hamlet was created a man by a man, what's the point arguing about that? Many male roles have been played by female actors, no problem as I see it, but attempting changing the gender of Hamlet seems a bit crude imo...
I also can't imagine any woman reacting as he did. It's such an extreme male emotional pattern and scheme - so Nordic that I actually suspect there's a true story behind Shakepeare's script.
Anyway, it's probably just my inability to navigate the paths of high female intelligence that leaves me stumped. I've read the subtitle, but still can't quite seem to grasp her point. Is it possible that she over complicates things a bit?
Maria Knez Also, what made you introduce the concept of "awakening"? Sara didn't, and I didn't... But it's of course true, "awakening isn't falling in love". The "falling" kinda gives that away right off the bat.
Debo aprender inglés punto. Ni idea que dijo.
Not everything has to be about women.
@B1Slee Shame on you both. Not everything IS about women, or the LGBT community, that's the point. Step one, look into the actual statistics of who has it better in our society. Step two, be amazed.
@@user-ns8qs1ky5w I have looked and men have it bad in society.
@@user-ns8qs1ky5w Yea, white women are first, followed by coloured people in general, then white men
you’re right, but the theme of this tedx event was women so most of the talks had something to do with feminism and/or female empowerment
You're right, in men's world everything is about themselves.
Vast majority of men couldn't vote then, either (and some women could). Not that it mattered anyway: there were no parties, prime minister, cabinet, or even democracy as we know it.
I know you're not English, so I'll let the ignorance slide this once.
But don't try and rewrite history.
In Canada some women even fought against the right to vote, over 50% if I remember my 8th grade textbook correctly
This ladies gripe belongs in a time machine.
That's the problem you want to take everything and make it just for women Hamlet was a man it should be played by a man or if a woman plays it it should be acted like a man
One of the most disappointing and pointless Ted talks I’ve listened to...
Can Hamlet be a woman? Sure. Can a woman play this role in modern times? Definitely. Will anyone be able of preventing that? I highly doubt. Will anyone try to somehow stop it? Why would they? Were there times when a woman playing the role would be casually frowned upon and much more? Absolutely. Are modern people, male or otherwise, to be blamed for the times they didn't exist? You've three tries, try to guess.
The speech started great and then fell in a unimaginative, uninspired complaining about how women are still oppressed, yada yada. Anyone who tries to oppress women nowadays gets stomped to the ground. So what are you even talking about?
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This whole talk is basically, women can play a fictional character, character has issues, something relatable, girl power?
Theater is sexist and to acknowledge that participates in the social discussions around this issue.
The whole thing was basically hearmorrhoids
@@fionafiona1146 yeah, yeah. Everything is sexist. Keep whinging. Nobody cares.
@@fionafiona1146 actually, all of the sexist parts of theater were removed a long time ago
Like a really long time (100yrs+)
Hamlet, unfortunately, is relatable to anyone who was/is haunted by the past and a deer in headlights at the thought of the future. It's definitely valuable to have a woman play it. That being said, the expectations on men and their success as well as some largely negative personality traits which men seem to express more often on average makes Hamlet a profoundly masculine character.
Oh God I knew it, even Shakespeare should be woke.
bro hamlet is a man in the script, like what. whats the point here.
Some feminists thing that being a woman is just being a better version of men, I think this was the same general idea of "let's make this woman powerfull by making her act like a man," the thing is though, women have their own strengths, completely separate from men's strengths.
The amount of dislikes, likely from bitter men who lack opportunity and affection in their lives, is legitimately sad. Not to mention telling. Guys, take some time to seriously consider your negative feelings regarding successful women.
That’s a lot of assumptions about people you don’t even know really exist.
The way you think about men is sad. Any man upset with this video is just as justified as you are making this comment btw
@@ryla22 no the men are not justified in being upset with this video. Please list out the reasons why a man would be justified for disagreeing with this video. I will wait.
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite I was just stating that any opinion is valid, especially ones that are negative about things that put them or other people down, like this video and it's roundabout way of saying that men are worse then women when in reality men and women are (in reality) equal
Utter stupidity. Next Cinderella will be a guy.
Actually, that was Rags. It’s a pretty funny movie, you should check it out
Men have problems too wtf
Never did she once deny that men have problems. Nice trolling though.
@@user-ns8qs1ky5w but she is saying that women have all these problems, and saying that they're woman problems, but men have a lot of similar problems and if they don't have that problem they have a different one somewhere else that's just as bad
@@ryla22 but women have had to fight just to have legal rights while men already had them. Men denied women the ability to do things
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite actually, (at least in canada) over 50% of Canadian women fought against the right to vote because of all the things that came with it (the draft, and other things that only men did)
The only reason why Canada's women got the right to vote is because the pm thought that the women would raise his chances of winning
(Thank you grade 10 history)
Friendly reminder we are not living in the past 👍
Saw the comments and saw it before bashing the judging wagon. But this video is pointless, the women here are just cutting themself short.
Something tells me that you didn't actually pay attention
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite Something tells me, that you don't know history as much as you think you know.
@@algomi9280 something tells me you think you do but you don't actually
Jessica Livingston no I don’t. la persona que se cree saber mucho, en realidad no entiende la realidad.
She would've been better off freestyling. This seems so scripted it turned into stand up comedy for me. She's funnier than any Schumer if you look at it through that lens
Not again! Keep pushin’ it... 50 years of complaining and still not happy... But, if our modern woman likes her unhappy bubble, be my guest and get cozy, but remember: too much of anything is not healthy... and very annoying :)
Just remember, not all women
In the first wave there were more than half (of the women) against getting the right to vote
At least in Canada
Becuse we are still treated like second class today. We still have people telling women they need to be quiet and obey men today! That is why we are still complaining because we are still being harassed and belittled.
@@ryla22 so what? Why does it matter that the majority of the women were being taught and believed that they were not important enough to vote? It was still wrong that they were treated as second class people and not as equals and we still get treated as such today.
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite are you living in the 50's? That kind of stuff hasn't happened in a very long time.
This play was about inner conflict betrayal and grief not about unequal sexes get a life it’s not about you
Fun fact: men have all the same problems as women except for periods, and most of those problems are much worse for men
Funfact: men don't get put down in the work place nearly as much as women do just because of how they were born.
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite wut
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite but you also have to think about how it's literally illegal to do that.
@@UlexiteTVStoneLexite I'm expecting out was put and the seccond instance of men was women
@@ryla22
People do not invent laws without precident.
It's illogical to discriminate based on gender, making it illegal would be unnecessary without prior stupidity.
None of this was new to me, I really thought she had a chance to do something original with such a title but ended up being the same annoying thing. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with what she’s saying, is just that I believe it all was a given and could be summarised in one introductory sentence leaving space for some actual educational content, especially since there’s not too many literature ted talks. Major disappointment.
MOOOOOOO!!!
Can't undrstand what this person is talking out. Shakespere is understandable.
i think she should listen to james brown music its a mans mans world
unsubbed
Another lecture from women that says let’s make this about me
Bruce Jenner looks like he has been hitting the pipe pretty hard.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Feminism and this obsession with women will have a kickback that no one will be prepared for.
So they aren't them self's reaction to the centurys long gender based segregation beyond European society?
fiona fiona you mean in a time when men went to war because a man would destroy a woman with a sword? Yeah and will snap back again. And again. And again. Men protected women in a time when physical strength mattered a lot. Therefore they had less rights because they could not do what men could. What percentage of military deaths are men? Men chose to sacrifice themselves to protect women and thus had rights. Most women didn’t want voting rights because they new what the price would be. Draft, taxation, etc. what do modern feminists even want? I have no idea. They just seem pissed they aren’t happy.
fiona fiona and I have no idea what gender segregation is. Men and women have never been segregated.
@@Fullyautomagic
Correct, that's why women may have close experience and finally speak up about it. For the benefit of men's souls.
Oh my gosh you red pills are so sad and pathetic. You are just the whiniest bunch ever.
we are not going to get backlash for this we are just trying to get equal footing in the world. why is it so hard for you to understand? Are you just that sad and pathetic that you can't let women be equal to you?
Stop blaming people for you’re problems and stand up, work, make and effort. Stop blaming the “patriarchy” you’re not victims. 1st world problems. What about the little girls refused any education, without something as simple to us as toilet paper? That’s oppression.
Women like softer roles. We tend to adore the idea of raising a family and there is nothing wrong with that. Stationary jobs whether that’s being a nurse, vet, teacher, office worker, scientist or lawyer. Also, no one likes noisy women or loud obnoxious men.
Why the heck she moves her head 50 times a second? Is she brain damaged?
annoying
Thy name is GET BACK IN THE FKN KITCHEN AND QUIT MAKING A SCENE
Boring
God - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord.
Wilbert You forgot man’s role in the family. Which is ultimately most important. But yes, I agree.
@@whit2642 What makes you say I forgot mans role?
That is a lie.
Wot?
Who was it, interpreting "his" words for the last 2 milenia?
@@fionafiona1146 There's only two interpretations, right and wrong