Re-Member Me as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue…” Creator and performer Dickie Beau isn’t here to speak the speech of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , he’s here to lip-synch some of the great performances of Hamlet that have ever been recorded. In the midst of his research, though, he became obsessed with Hamlets who have not been recorded, lost to the ephemeral nature of theatre – disappeared like the ghost of Hamlet’s father. “Remember Me,” Hamlet’s father tells him before disappearing into the ether. It is the inciting incident of the play, leading the young prince to determine the truth behind his father’s death. Dickie Beau’s Re-Member Me is about actors and acting and the performance of Hamlet, not about the play or the character itself. It is important to this show that this Shakespearean tragedy is one of the most produced play texts in the English language, beca
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