"The Art of Spying" in HAMLET: Act 2, Scenes 1-2(a). Final Week - Shakespeare | The Rehearsal Room

🏁 In this session, highlights include: ➤ **Analyzing Polonius' instructions** for spying on Laertes ➤ **Ophelia's alarming encounter** that leaves her frightened and confused ➤ **Claudius' maneuvering** about the threat posed by Fortinbras   Welcome back to The Rehearsal Room for this season (10!) as we continue our HAMLET Project.  *📷 cover photo: Nick Bettens* \--- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session. \*\** These sessions are free for all to enjoy; your support helps us keep this space creative, accessible, and high-quality.\*\** 🙌 Many thanks to our recent supporters! Help us continue our work in the Rehearsal Room through a ONE-TIME DONATION: - 💰 PayPal: https://paypal.me/nathanagin81 - 🤑 Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/nathanagin - 💳 Credit card: http://workingactorsjourney.com/donation-checkout 🤗 Or become a MONTHLY PATRON with additional benefits (starting at $5/month) with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Sandy, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif, and Jeff!  --- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM for this month: DIRECTOR: Annie Occhiogrosso ACTORS: Randall Duk Kim, Benjamin Reigel, Nick Bettens, Michele Schultz, Liz Swain, Sarah Mabes, Jim Stubbs, Terry Kerr, Steven Helmeke and Sharon McCune AUDIENCE: Sandy Robbins, Sandy Ernst, Laurie Strother, Doug Strother, Charles Stransky, Frank Tobin, Cindy Griffith, Rebecca Oettinger, Alexandra Mitchell, Roseann Sheridan, Val Lantz-Gefroh, Chris Chinn, Robert Duerr, Celine Noguiera, Adriana Roze, Ben Farrow, Jessica Gibbons, Aaron Mendelson and Sara Giacomini. ***A big welcome to the many new participants with this project!*** \--- We explore... - Act 2, Scene 1**:** Polonius sends his servant Reynaldo to Paris to question Laertes's acquaintances. Ophelia enters, deeply disturbed about a visit she has just had from an apparently mad Hamlet. - Act 2, Scene 2: Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet, to spy on him. As Hamlet and his "friends" talk, a company of touring actors enters and Hamlet persuades one of them to deliver a speech. Hamlet hopes that when the players stage their show for the court, he can determine whether Claudius is guilty of King Hamlet's death. *The links above will take you to the* ***Folio version*, which we use heavily here.**   #hamlet #workingactor #rehearsal #shakespeare #textwork #acting #actor #director