Corona Cold Reads: Hamlet

These are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.   We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our […]

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These are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.

We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our yearly Critics’ Pick Awards had to be cancelled (we’ve still got trophies to give out, eventually). We started the Corona Movie Club to help curb our boredom and constant need to talk about movies with other human beings. I’m even watching network procedurals and actually writing about them.

But what we all really need is comfort. We need our favourite things and our favourite people and right now those are hard to come by so we have to do everything we can to bring them together whenever possible. For me, there’s nothing quite so comforting and joyful as Shakespeare. Luckily, I know a lot of people who also love Shakespeare- a few old friends from my alma mater’s Shakespeare Society and a few of my favourite Toronto theatre artists, all of whom just so happen to be talented and generous and responsibly socially isolated enough to want to join a nearly 3-hour 19-person Zoom call for the purposes of livestreaming Shakespeare on YouTube.

Check out Hamlet in audio form below (or on iTunes) then tune into our YouTube page on Saturday and Tuesday nights at 7pm EST to catch our live readings.

A huge thank you to the cast of Hamlet:

Bernardo- Laura Hubbard

Voltimand- Weldon Goree

Servant/First Priest- Olivia Klausen McCargar

First Player/Prologue- Mark Kreder

Francisco/Lucianus- Melissa Wright

Reynaldo- Nicole Falgoust

Second Clown- Hilary Wartinger

Gentleman/First Sailor/Lord- Stephanie Junge-Filipek

Player King- Mo Kamaly

Player Queen- Elizabeth Morriss

Marcellus- Cass Van Wyck

Cornelius/Osric- Jessi McCarthy

Captain/Messenger/First Ambassador- Miriam B

Horatio- Elizabeth Ramirez

Claudius- Christopher Prentice

Laertes- Shalyn McFaul

Polonius- Nicanor Campos

Hamlet- Jesse Nerenberg

Gertrude- Carmen Grant

Ophelia- Erin Eldershaw

Ghost- Jim Hill

Fortinbras- David Armstrong

Rosencrantz- Gaby Grice

Guildenstern- Torey Urquhart

Danes/First Clown (Gravedigger)- Steve Vargo

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