To Be Loved Is To Be Changed

I am just a funny little man in his funny little waistcoat.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Hello. I suppose if I'm going to be more active here, I should introduce myself:

I'm Darcy. 29, he/they.

I started this blog for the dark academic aesthetic and now it's mostly a place to throw all of my Shakespeare/Theater brainrot and reblog random poetry and art.

Current Brainrot:

Hamlet

Should I specify that this is a side blog? I haven't been on tumblr in so long I feel like I don't know how the rules work anymore.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Tis I, your poor servant Hamlet, and his whiskey for sleep.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Do any theater professionals out there have any tips to compartmentalize a role? Or how to decompress after rehearsals and shows?

Hamlet has such a tight grip on my mind that I can't sleep.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

My solution so far has been double shots of straight bourbon.

[tuherrus]

i liked this movie a lot

[binary-bird]

oh, what have i become? dirty and wretched one am i unholy land? have i forced your hand?

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Do any theater professionals out there have any tips to compartmentalize a role? Or how to decompress after rehearsals and shows?

Hamlet has such a tight grip on my mind that I can't sleep.

[petrichor-mist]

Rain is the most beautiful poem nature has ever written ♡

[rosieandthemoon]

ruins of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, Scotland

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

[katerobynmoments]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

I'm playing Hamlet and this director has decided that Hamlet has to have the shit kicked out of him the entire show.

[eden-writes-stuff]

Hamlet adaptation where Horatio puts on a brave face while Hamlet is dying and then whispers his 'good night, sweet prince' and when Hamlet closes his eyes he just screams and starts wheeping

[little-cereal-draws]

I wholeheartedly believe ppl should start saying, “But Brutus is an honorable man" instead of "I'm going to kill myself" when something inconveniencing happens

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Learning my lines and treating it like thesis research.

[weltenwellen]

yea

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Does anyone here have a memory of a production of Hamlet that had a trough of water surrounding the stage? The only other detail I remember was that instead of having an actor play the Ghost, Hamlet would become possessed by the Ghost and speak the lines.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

I remembered something else!

When Hamlet first chases after the Ghost to speak to it, he comes onstage by walking through the water.

And it was a very minimal cast. If memory serves, it was all male performers acting out the show and playing multiple parts.

[pocketsizedmrdarcy]

Resurrecting this again because this is haunting my thoughts to the point where I feel like I hallucinated an entire production of Hamlet.

Another detail I can remember was that the backdrop was white sheets. It had the feel of almost being on a pirate ship. And I think the stage was a thrust style stage so the trough of water went around all three sides.