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Hamlet (place)
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TL;DR: McKellen as mentioned in this paper describes a bare stage, lit with low voltage lighting, where most of the women wore headscarves, some university students had been allowed in and city officials sat with their spouses in the front row.
Abstract: Pe rf o rm a n c e R e s e a r c h 1 6 ( 2 ) , p p . 7 4 8 2 © Ta y l o r & F ra n c i s L td 2 01 1 D O I : 1 0 . 1 0 8 0 / 1 3 5 2 8 1 6 5 . 2 0 1 1 . 5 7 8 8 3 5 When the Prospect Theatre Company performed Richard II in Czechoslovakia in 1969, Ian McKellen feared this ‘foreign tale told in a foreign language’ would receive a cool reception (1982). He notes that all publicity for the company’s visit had been silenced, and, up until the last moment, the new regime seemed to want to cancel the performance. He describes a bare stage, lit with low voltage lighting. He looked out into an audience where most of the women wore headscarves, some university students had been allowed in and city officials sat with their spouses in the front row. In Act 3, Richard kneels down on the defenceless earth, back in his kingdom once again, and weeps tears of joy. McKellen remembers his motion, ‘Down I go in Making Mourning Show Hamlet and affective public-making
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TL;DR: In the Melanesian island of New Ireland, located in the Bismarck Archipelago some four hundred miles northeast of New Guinea (Fig. 1), the most important moments of social and ceremonial life are the mortuary feasts most commonly known as Malagans.
Abstract: n the Melanesian island of New Ireland, located in the Bismarck Archipelago some four hundred miles northeast of New Guinea (Fig. 1), the most important moments of social and ceremonial life are the mortuary feasts most commonly known as Malagans. These are held for all individuals in the months or years after their demise, and one such celebration, staged in 1978-1979 in the Kisiu hamlet of Panatgin village (central Mandak region), was recorded in considerable detail in the ethnographic reporting of Elizabeth Brouwer and also on film by Chris Owen.' In the discussion which follows, I would like to
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