So faced with so much noise saying you can’t tell a story with naked men, we just said, ‘Watch us.’” To us, the right to be at one with your body and unashamed of your body is one that belongs to everyone.
So why a nude Hamlet - and why now? “After The Tempest, there was this huge internet reaction and so much of it was from people, mostly men but not exclusively, talking about how it would be impossible to do this with men, how nobody wants to see naked men on stage, it’s disgusting, it’s perverse, it’s obscene, they said. And once we realized that, like it or not, Hamlet tells that story.”Īs for the nudity, there is some precedent extending back a decade ago to the Washington Shakespeare Company’s 2007 production of an all-nude Macbeth. We wanted to tell a story about being yourself even when everyone in the world is telling you not to. Let’s not.’ But then we started thinking let’s not look for a specific play but for what kind of story we want to tell, and is there a play out there that’s already telling that story. It’s the most famous play in the English language. The first time Hamlet came up as a possibility I said, ‘No, no, it’s too big. “We wanted to follow up The Tempest with something that addressed body image and body positivity for men. Why Hamlet? “I have been asking myself that question for a month,” director Pitr Strait said in an interview. The latest, and perhaps most titillating example: what’s being billed as a “nude, all-male, body-positive” outdoor production of the play being put on in Manhattan’s Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, courtesy of Torn Out Theater, the same people who made headlines for last summer’s nude, all-female production of The Tempest. From audiences walking up on stage to charge their cell phones on the set of the Public Theater’s current Oscar Isaac-fronted production of Hamlet to a recent Elle article titled, “ All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Obsessed With Playing Hamlet,” it’s clear the William Shakespeare tragedy, first published four centuries ago, is having a moment in 2017.
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