The Five Second Version - They All Die

Jan 14, 2003 23:23

This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

- Lord Polonius

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is it a rat? rachaelnoel January 24 2003, 05:20:36 UTC
Did you see the Five Minute Hamlet? Written by Tom stoppard I beleive. REally fucking funny.

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Re: is it a rat? raggedy January 24 2003, 07:58:22 UTC
I haven't seen that. And truth be told I only saw Hamlet for the first time, the other day. See there is this game based on Hamlet. Very silly.

Hamlet!
A game in five acts. Suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. A fun little strategy/boardgame for 3-8 players.

In Hamlet!, the players are the voices in Shakespeare's head as the bard tries to write the play. Will it end up as The Merrie Comedy of Hamlet of Elsinore, Denmark Über Allies, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive And Well And Living in England? Only you can say for sure. Hamlet is an irreverant game based loosely on the famous play.So after playing it a couple of times I though it would probally help to see the film. Just so that I could understand all the relationships between the characters. As luck would have it there was a copy of Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. Mind you his verision completley misses out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Then several days later Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet was on tv, so I recorded that to be watched at a later date and ( ... )

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