Highlights of Janet McTeer & Company in BERNHARDT/HAMLET on Broadway!

might I point out that you cannot attempt to play Hamlet merely as an act of ego Sarah all theater is an act of [Music] ego now they don't come to see Hamlet they come to see you be Hamlet well if they don't come I'm quite finished actors always say that sometimes they say it because it's true finished the Divine [Music] sah I do know it's a gamble Hamlet is more than a gamble Hamlet is life what does that mean I don't know just means what it means [Music] I am perfectly suited to play Hamlet no one cares about his masculinity soall they care about the Magnificent Nuance of his heart yes and his passion and his Joy his Joy he's the most miserable and melancholic of men no one is going to come to to the theater to see me play a depressed melancholic boy oh he's not a boy oh I am not going to argue with you about how old he is because I'm right he is a a passionate confused youth with the mind of a man of 40 a young actor of what um 20 cannot understand the philosophy of Hamlet and an older actor no longer looks the part and nor has he the ready heart of the woman who can combine the light Carriage of Youth with the mature thought of a man a woman more readily looks apart feels the part and has the suppleness of mind to grasp it yes women L all we ever get to do is sit around and mope for love the power that's what eludes us does power elude you no no maybe that's why Hamlet's driving me mad all that privilege and he can't figure out how to do anything a woman would never have got away with it many women do nothing and who cares about them a woman who does nothing is nothing a man who does nothing is Hamlet