HARRY HAMLIN Acclaimed actor Harry Hamlin joins 23 fellow actors, along with musicians and dancers, for a very special tribute to William Shakespeare
All the World’s a Stage…
for Harry Hamlin
This year is the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and there will be celebrations all over the world in honor of the Bard. BritWeek will be leading the Los Angeles celebration with a one-night-only performance titled Murder, Lust, & Madness on April 23rd in Beverly Hills, directed and produced by the highly acclaimed Shakespeare scholar Louis Fantasia.
BritWeek caught up with Golden Globe and Emmy multinominated Harry Hamlin to talk Shakespeare, and why after so many years there continues to be such excitement around his great works.
Q. You are playing Macbeth in the BritWeek production on April 23rd, but you’ve also played Hamlet and Henry V, who is your favorite Shakespeare character and why? I would have to put Hamlet over Macbeth as the favorite of Shakespeare’s characters that I have played. I don’t think I need to explain why!
Q. What is your favorite Shakespeare quote? My favorite quote from the Bard is spoken by the Scottish king in Act V Scene V beginning with “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...” I always think of that speech when I’m feeling like I’m getting a bit too full of myself! So, I think of it quite often!
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Q. Why do you think there continues to be such a strong interest in Shakespeare’s work on stage and screen? Because Shakespeare was able to channel the human experience with such facility, dimension, humor and poetry, I doubt that interest in his work will ever wane. No one else has ever been able to distill so many aspects of our behavior into words and stories that continue to instruct, inform, delight and amaze. His work is our enduring mirror. In its reflection we find ourselves!
Join Harry Hamlin and the full cast on April 23, 2016 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for this riveting performance of theatre, music and dance. Limited tickets available at Britweek.org