My vote for best actor doesn't seem to register either. Hmm. The other categories seems to have gone through okay. 

I can't find anywhere to contact them about it though! How annoying! I was just about to go back and use all my other email addresses to vote...  

No matter how many times I refresh or go to other pages and come back... it's not registered... 

I'll email them! 

They answered my email this morning:


"Thanks for your email.

Due to the high number of votes in the Best Actor in a Play category, the system took a little while for them to be processed. Your vote will have gone through and it should now be coming up saying you've already submitted.

Thanks for getting involved and I'm glad you enjoyed Hamlet!"

OH MY GOD!!!

The record of Hamlet reached my country at last and so, as probably the last member of this forum, I finally got to see it. I´m just back from the screening and oh my God, the adaptation was SOO GOOOOD!!! I´m feeling like a junkie who infused his veins with a big shot of his favourite drug. I didn´t realised how starved I am for Ben´s acting until I got this mega-giga-overdose. But I overdosed in a good way - I am exhilarated. Ben´s acting (and looks)... wow, just wow! It´s as if I have never seen him acting, until now. Really, you must see that man in a theatre to witness what a marvellous actor he is... it was wondrous. I don´t know how do I return into mundane reality after being kidnapped to another world by his performance...

And the rest of the cast and the production itself... I have no words. It was all so perfect. The grandness and beauty of the set alone took my breath away and it was used so perfectly. I am still in awe over scenes like "ghost´s appearance", "the wicked theatre play", "the demise of Ophelia", "the snowstorm of the ashes" and especially that incredible moment during the duel of Hamlet and Laertes when the time itself suddenly stopped, constricted and then seemingly exploded like a supernova, paired with the Nat Cole King´s melody "There was a boy".... the other adaptations of Hamlet I have seen until now are just pale imitations of Shakespeare´s art next to this one. I am so happy I could experience the real power of this play through this adaptation! (And I was so happy that I am seeing the record with subtitles! I have doubly relished it because of that.) 

And after that powerful performance, the sweet plea for charity from Benedict, civil and so endearingly modest once again, made me love him even more... 

All in all, a fantastic experience! 

I'm happy to hear you finally got to see it nakahara! 


Yitzock, if I'm thinking about the same thing as you about the 'snow storm of ashes', that's where Claudius has his monologue at the end of the first part? 

I was in 2nd row, and I got some of the brunt of that. It was done with grey and black confetti that was swooshed out with air canons. I spent the entire break picking those pieces out of my hair and I saved a bit of it too (and somehow manage to find some in my panties when I got back to my hotel)

 

Last edited by This Is The Phantom Lady (December 6, 2015 4:41 pm)

Yes, that is exactly what I was referring to.  I figured it was with some kind of fan, but still, the power of it must have been immense! Not too surprising that it got into some of the audience rows, though if it hadn't I would have commended their calculation and control.
Very cool staging, all around, that bit included.

It was even more incredible live, I've seen the performance three times and yet I was thrilled every time. And some poeple really jumped in their sits, it had such a powerful impact.

I was up in the gods and it didn't distract me one bit!

Four awards for Benedict, Sian Brooke, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Es Devlin! Congrats.

https://www.playshakespeare.com/falstaff-awards/falstaff-awards-2015

Woohoo!