After my
last post of
skulls I received a tweet from 'thedougco' in the US on the subject of
Yorick from Hamlet. Although the bone church studies are unrelated I am, in fact, slowly building up a series of theatre sketches & earlier this year rendered several scenes from
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a play that takes a
parallax view of the events in Shakespeare's Hamlet. So it's a fare question to ask if I had considered making a study based on Yorick, the dead
jester of
'Hamlet'. The truth is I had and always meant to go back to
the sketch. Thanks to this tweeter I now have.
Blood, Love and Rhetoric is a theatre company in Prague, where I am based, and the first group to allow me
to sketch their rehearsals. I visited them one evening last winter and sketched away as they prepared
RAGAD. later I sat in the audience for their performance of three
Chekhov comedies and took note of the image of Yorick on stage in
Chekhov's play 'Swan Song'.
Incidentally
'Who's there?' is the opening line cried out by a guard, into the dark of night, in Hamlet. It seems fitting in this case for the title of this post as with
Twitter it seems the only real question to tweet.
