No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet

Big Boy Buff Boy for Gravedigger

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Gravedigger
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Role assigned to: Big Boy Buff Boy

The gravedigger that digs Ophelia's grave. He's a sarcastic, cynical and witty character with many intelligent remarks directed towards his collegue and Hamlet.

I'm looking for a voice that has a comedic edge to it, and I'm not looking for any specific kind of voice, tone speaking.

(Read only the Gravedigger's lines)

I ACCEPT EVERY ACCENT.

  • (talking about Ophelia's suicide) Sounds more like “self-offense,” if you ask me. What I’m saying is, if she knew she was drowning herself, then that’s an act. An act has three sides to it: to do, to act, and to perform. Therefore she must have known she was drowning herself. 

  • HAMLET (talking about the grave the gravedigger is standing in)

    I think it really must be yours, since you’re the one lying in it.

    GRAVEDIGGER

    And you’re lying outside of it, so it’s not yours. As for me, I’m not lying to you in it—it’s really mine.

    HAMLET

    But you are lying in it, being in it and saying it’s yours. It’s for the dead, not the living. So you’re lying.

    GRAVEDIGGER

    That’s a lively lie, sir—it jumps so fast from me to you.

    HAMLET

    What man are you digging it for?

    GRAVEDIGGER

    For no man, sir.

    HAMLET

    What woman, then?

    GRAVEDIGGER

    For no woman, either.

    HAMLET

    Who’s to be buried in it?

    GRAVEDIGGER

    One who used to be a woman but—bless her soul—is dead now.







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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet
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Green Elixir

I really like the way you got through the part and the accent you used! You surely are on my shortlist for this role, as of now!

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