Acting Bias- November 20, 2008

In watching all of the groups tonight, you can appreciate the text even more. Othello and Hamlet changed something about the text in their specific play. Hamlet changed the words to make the text more understandable. However, with every new director there is a specific bias toward each character. The Othello group changed the entire play and even though everyone still died in the end, the interpretation of the play is probably entirely different than what Shakespeare intended. Shakespeare is dead, but the text is still alive and can be interpreted to be important to every reader. In performing tonight, I was amazed to see that a text that is meant as a tragedy could be turned into a comedy. Just as in life, there are funny moments even in the hardest of times.