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Submitted by shortie_9020 on September 10, 2007
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If I were to get the role of Gertrude I would represent her as a power hungry, selfish and questionable person will little or no morals. I will explain how I would represent her like this, assuming I do get the roll of course, through her nature, motivations and her interactions with the other actors; also I will further explain how the audience will be invited to respond to Gertrude, by stage props, lighting and sounds. I will show how my representation will be activated by her costuming, physical movements, manner and also her tone.
Gertrude's nature will be manipulative, cunning and self-centered. She would appear to give sly smiles and would look at the roof or at the ground rather then directly at the person, when talking to someone, so the audience will think she is hiding things and not telling the full truth. She would be motivated by the power which she got from helping kill Hamlet Snr, and marrying Claudius, which she only did for the power. While interacting to the other characters she would have her arms crossed, make faces when people are not looking, play with her hair and basically fiddle with things, sort of like a typical school age, gum blowing, short skirt, high sock teenage school girl, kind of like you see in the American movies. An example of when I would use this is in the bedroom scene (Act Three, scene Four) when she is begging hamlet for mercy not to kill her because she knows that he knows that she was involved or knew about Claudius killing Hamlet Snr, when he was watching her she would be relentlessly crying (the whole deal balling, puffy red face, screaming Everything), but when he turned away she would shrug her shoulders and make a quick tisk and sigh. This would allow the audience to see how fake and two faced she is because she is appearing like the grieving widow and apologetic but really behind his back she is careless about the pain and death that she has caused in her own family. Also when hamlet leaves...
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