Pictures from the Premiere Production of
The Trial Of Hamlet
by Steven Breese
| Picture | Characters | Setting | Line | |
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| Act I, Scene 5 | Horatio & Hamlet | Courtroom-Day 10 of Trial | "Shed your truant disposition my lord, and exact discipline." | |
| Act I, Scene 6 | Claudius & Gertrude | Castle Chapel | "Why to the air! To the incorporeal air did he discourse.." | |
| Act I, Scene 3 | Horatio & Hamlet | Jail Cell at Elsinore |
"Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" |
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| Act I, Scene 7 | Shayla, Hamlet & Horatio | Hamlet's Chamber | "Surely you understand that conversing with the dead is not a daily activity for most of us..." | |
| Act II, Scene 4 | Hamlet & Ophelia | Courtroom-Day 13 of Trial | "When little fears grow great, great love grows there." | |
| Shayla & Horatio | Courtroom Conclusion of Trial | "Your story, my words, his truth..." | ||
| Act I, Scene 3 | Hamlet | Jail Cell at Elsinore | "Reason enough have I. If vengeance were disease, live I with pestilence." | |
| Act I, Scene 6 | Claudius & Gertrude | Castle Chapel | "Memory is short-I can no longer think what I did know I knew. Or thought to know." | |
| Act I, Scene 5 | All | Courtroom-With video | "Six days has it been, Hamlet, and this court must have your answer." | |
| Act II, Scene 5 | Ophelia's Testimony | Courtroom-With video | "...and he wondered if he should his quietus make with a bare bodkin." | |
| Act I, Scene 3 | Shayla Spire, Hamlet & Horatio | Jail Cell at Elsinore | "Horatio tells me half the lawyers in the world want ot defend me, the other half want to prosecute me." | |
| Act II, Scene 7 | Claudius & Gertrude | Final Day in Court | "What, O husband, hast thou to say? Let it now be known for I am ready." | |
| Act I, Scene 2 | Gertrude & Hamlet | Gertrude's Closet | "Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. Thou art mad..." | |
| Laertes & Ophelia | Castle Elsinore | "I ask you not, implore you not, beseach you not in words polite..." | ||
| Act II, Scene 7 | All | Final Day in Court | "Thy fortune good awaits our future King to be!" | |
| Act I, Scene 6 | Claudius & Guildenstern | Castle Chapel | "With all due respect my leige, the press is precisely where this trial will be won and lost." | |
| Act
II, Scene 6 |
Hamlet |
Hamlet's Bedroom |
"Now might time stop and fate control my will..." | |
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