e-Corpus, Week 5, #2

So this week we have been talking about some of the different styles of acting.  One of the styles is method acting, which is where the actors put themselves in the poison of the character they are playing and tries to play them as accurately as possible.  This week I was listening to the NPR show This American life, which is a show where they have different, stories often around one theme.  And this week they had just one story that was about a group of maximum-security prisoners who where pouting on a production of Act 5 of Shakespeare’s famous Hamlet.  This is an interesting look into character acting because the characters in Hamlet are contemplating committing a murder, and several of the people performing the play actually had murdered someone.  What a unique insight they must have had into exactly what their characters must be going though.

 

The name of the episode is just Act V, # 218 and you can hear it at thislife.org and its just about an hour long.

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