2008 Woodie Awards
Students present life after 'Hamlet'
Laura Leedy
Issue date: 3/11/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Ranger Reporter
The Amarillo College theater department takes to the spotlight to present Lee Blessing's Fortinbras. You still can catch this one-act play, which depicts the time immediately following the events of Hamlet, Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
"It's interesting, I've never seen anything like it," said education/theater major Angel McVay.
"The whole affair with the ghost of Ofilia and Fortinbras was the best part."
McVay, who wants to teach theater, attends many of AC's plays and said this one definitely is the most different.
Fortinbras, a soldier, enters the castle of Elsinore with the belief that he has gained it effortlessly. He throws his power around by fabricating a false story as to what really happened before he came, thus stirring up the ghosts of Hamlet and others, who interfere and harass Fortinbras to get him to tell the truth.
Education major Alisha Mathis came to see her friend, Braden Witt, who plays the quirky Osric.
"The highlight was to see Braden. I loved his performance," Mathis said. "The play in general is good - a lot different than any other play at AC."
Steven Gutierrez, a graphic design major, said he came for extra credit and found Fortinbras to be "pretty good."
"I've never seen Hamlet, but the play was good with lots of comedy and different characters," he said.
"The ghosts making out was definitely a different twist."
As "different" as the play may be, it caught the attention of the audience with plenty of humor and innuendos. Blessing called the play a "metaphysical farce."
Director Kat Winegar states in the play's program, "The play grapples with and never really resolves the issue of what truth is. Blessing hints that, despite our efforts to shape the truth or the past, or even the future, some things have a greater power beyond our control."
The Amarillo College theater department takes to the spotlight to present Lee Blessing's Fortinbras. You still can catch this one-act play, which depicts the time immediately following the events of Hamlet, Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
"It's interesting, I've never seen anything like it," said education/theater major Angel McVay.
"The whole affair with the ghost of Ofilia and Fortinbras was the best part."
McVay, who wants to teach theater, attends many of AC's plays and said this one definitely is the most different.
Fortinbras, a soldier, enters the castle of Elsinore with the belief that he has gained it effortlessly. He throws his power around by fabricating a false story as to what really happened before he came, thus stirring up the ghosts of Hamlet and others, who interfere and harass Fortinbras to get him to tell the truth.
Education major Alisha Mathis came to see her friend, Braden Witt, who plays the quirky Osric.
"The highlight was to see Braden. I loved his performance," Mathis said. "The play in general is good - a lot different than any other play at AC."
Steven Gutierrez, a graphic design major, said he came for extra credit and found Fortinbras to be "pretty good."
"I've never seen Hamlet, but the play was good with lots of comedy and different characters," he said.
"The ghosts making out was definitely a different twist."
As "different" as the play may be, it caught the attention of the audience with plenty of humor and innuendos. Blessing called the play a "metaphysical farce."
Director Kat Winegar states in the play's program, "The play grapples with and never really resolves the issue of what truth is. Blessing hints that, despite our efforts to shape the truth or the past, or even the future, some things have a greater power beyond our control."