1 | Play: HAMLET | ||||
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3 | Pg # | Act/Scene | Cue Line | Light Change | Specific Notes about Lights: Setting/Feeling/Quality |
4 | 1 | Prologue | Music begins/Actors in place | Stage at full | Doesn't need any specific effects. Can be a general wash |
5 | 1 | Scene 1 | End of music, actors move | Exterior nighttime, COLD | Actors will start on the floor |
6 | 1 | Scene 1 | "Tush, tush, 'twill not appear" | Lights up on stage | This is for the GHOST! SCARY AND COLD! |
7 | 2 | Scene 1 | "Where we shall find him most conveniently" | Lights transition | Down and up is fine |
8 | 3 | Scene 2 | Actors in place | Stage at full | General interior wash of whole stage |
9 | 4 | Scene 2 | "O that this too, too solid flesh would melt," | Soliloquy light! | All of Hamlet's soliloquys should have the same light. Something slightly cold. Possibly top lit? Lots of shadows. |
10 | 4 | Scene 2 | "Hail to your lordship!" | Back to previous look | General interior wash of whole stage |
11 | 5 | Scene 2 | "My father's spirit in arms! All is not well." | Lights transition | Down and up is fine |
12 | 6 | Scene 3 | Actors in place | Downstage right isolated | General interior (warm) |
13 | 7 | Scene 3 | "I shall obey, my lord." | Lights transition | Down and up is fine |
14 | 8 | Scene 4 | Actors in place | Exterior nighttime, COLD | Actors will start on the floor |
15 | 8 | Scene 4 | "Look, my lord, it comes!" | Lights up on stage | GHOST! |
16 | 10 | Scene 5 | "That ever I was born to set it right!" | Lights transition | Down and up is fine |
17 | 11 | Scene 6 | Actors in place | Downstage right isolated | General interior (warm) |
18 | 11 | Scene 6 | "Come, go we to the king" | Lights transition | Down and up is fine |
19 | 12 | Scene 7 | Actors in place | Stage at full | General interior wash of whole stage |
20 | 18 | Scene 8 | "Now I am alone" | Soliloquy light! | |
21 | 18 | Scene 8 | "Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." | Lights transition | |
22 | 19 | Scene 9 | Actors in place | Stage at full | General interior wash of whole stage |
23 | 20 | Scene 9 | "I hear him coming. Let's withdraw, my lord" | Soliloquy light! | TO BE OR NOT TO BE! |
24 | 20 | Scene 9 | "Soft you now! The fair Ophelia!" | Lights up on stage | |
25 | 21 | Scene 9 | "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go" | Lights transition | |
26 | 22 | Scene 10 | Actors in place | Stage at full | General interior wash of whole stage |
27 | 23 | Scene 10 | "You are merry, my lord" | Center stage isolated | This is the play within the play. Edges of stage should be dark |
28 | 23 | Scene 10 | "Give me some light! Away!" | Stage at full | General interior wash of whole stage |
29 | 23 | Scene 10 | "We shall obey, were she ten times our mother." | Lights transition | |
30 | 24 | Scene 11 | Actors in place | Center stage isolated | This is a hallway or smaller room in the castle |
31 | 24A | Scene 11 | "Words without thoughts never to heaven go" | Lights transition | This is an added page. I will email ASAP. |
32 | 25 | Scene 12 | Actors in place | Downstage left isolated | Gertrude's bedroom |
33 | 26 | Scene 12 | "No more, sweet Hamlet" | Add GHOST! | Not sure where I want the ghost yet, but we can keep her upstage center where her previous light was |
34 | 27 | Scene 12 | "Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind." | Lights transition | |
35 | 28 | Scene 13 | Actors in place | Lights up on stage | |
36 | 28 | Scene 14 | Actors in place | Lights up on floor | |
37 | 28 | Scene 14 | "Of nothing: bring me to him" | Lights down on floor | |
38 | 30 | Scene 15 | "Do it, England" | Lights transition | |
39 | 31 | Scene 16 | Actors in place | Stage at full | Should be a colder wash than before - Crazy Ophelia! |
40 | 34 | Scene 16 | "Are all the rest come back?" | Lights up on floor | This might happen earlier |
41 | 34 | Scene 16 | "How now, sweet queen?" | Lights down on floor | |
42 | 34 | Scene 16 | "Now fear I this will give it start again" | Lights transition | |
43 | 34 | Scene 17 | Actors in place | Lights up on stage | Graveyard scene. Cold, exterior. Maybe a bit dim. |
44 | 37 | Scene 17 | "Our purpose may hold there." | Lights transition | |
45 | 38 | Scene 18 | Actors in place | Lights up on stage | Last scene! Big, general wash, maybe a little colder than it used to be |
46 | 42 | Scene 18 | "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" | Lights down | End of play! |
47 | Curtain Call | Lights up on stage | |||