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(above)
Original Poster Art for Production June 2004.
Part
One: Hamlet's Echo (The Android Me & Me)
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(left/right)
Bradley
Delaire stars as Hamlet in Ken Hudson's Android Me and Me.
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(left)
Bob Dobbs as the Gravedigger in Times Sqaure NYC.
(right)
Bruce Barnes as the Ghost of old Hamlet, Toronto.
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The Android Me &
Me (Hamlet's Echo)
This experimental site-specific, inter-media theatrical / filmed-art presentation
explores the nature of being, performance, and technology, through a fragmentary
staging of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The recorded fragments will later be
formed into a complete narrative.
FROM THE PROGRAM NOTES:
Thank you for approaching this new work of mine with curiosity. Let me
try to help you understand what you are about to experience. We all take
for granted that we live in a global village, a global theatre. Look around.
The entire space you see is our theatre today. Those walking before you
may or may not be stagehands rigging the set. All of the elements around
this King's College Circle, natural and fashioned, is my adaptation of
Hamlet. Soon my formal scripted action will begin and you may glimpse
fragments from it. Then again, you may not. I am sorry about that, which
is why the show is both short and free. Some of the action will take place
at long-distance, in New York City and other locations. Our performers
there will use technology to contibute their parts to the whole. All the
fragmented action will be documented and assembled later to form a complete
narrative. I invite you to visit androidmeme.com to view this film and
photographs from the show. My aim is to evoke Hamlet's meaning, while
remaining completely autonomous of any formal theatrical premise or structure.
I hope you find this experiment interesting and thank you for your participation.
Ken Hudson, Toronto - June 2004
Ken
Hudson's Android
Meme Cycle is a trilogy of inter-media works that explore contemporary
life and its technological extensions.
Hamlet's
Echo (The Android Me and Me) - June 2004
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet using cell phones to deliver and
record fragmentary dialogue while performers mingle covertly in public
spaces.Audience members attempt to discern action and performer from random
passersby by eavesdropping. Staged simultaneously in Toronto (at the meridian
of Toronto magnetic marker, King's College Circle) and in Times Square,
New York City (via web cam). All footage, audio, photographs, and digital
media of this enactment will be used to create a complete filmed-art narrative
presentation. Learn more about Hamlet's Echo
here.
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