Hamlet 255 Redone ... Shaktim ... The Hamlet of YouTube

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1814253/ an actor prepares What is it like for an actor to break down a character and put it back together? Repetition, finding the humanity in each syllable takes detailed concentration and a willingness to Play... and combing through the piece to find nuances ... This is the task of an actor. To Find the truth. I hope you enjoy and play my game of 'Skip Around Hamlet'. Find the Hamlet that best expresses your picture of this complex character brought to life by the profound writings of William Shakespeare! So far there are 255 to choose from. Please Comment and Subscribe... T I M M A L O N E Y ... Shaktim ... The Hamlet of YouTube Hamlet 365

YouTube Hamlet 257 with Anyone's Guess ... 'Leavin'

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T I M M A L O N E Y ... Shaktim ... The Hamlet of YouTube

I like this TAKE because I have been with Jack now for a couple of months and I think his technique (one of them) of asking What? from moment to moment, was beginning to be answered in this rendering. What is it like for an actor to work out TEXT ? Some new questions arise as I am beginning to learn some valuable lessons about acting. Being in the moment that exists as one trusts in the play. I feel as an actor I have always generalized the work that I've done and mostly just placed emotion on top of the text, my own personal agenda of fears and emotional life, being the enormous well of angst that I own. Stanislavski said that 'Generalization is the enemy of art'... Jack believes that the more you are clear on what you, as the character, are doing, the less you need to load why... so in the background work that you do... it is not brought to the moment... it is the circumstance of the life of the character... but knowing what you are doing in the moment of speaking the text... this is what I am now working on... I hope you enjoy my adventure into becoming a professional actor and one that is not just acting by accident. A special thanks to Allan Rich for the tools he gave me in our first session... http://www.aleapfromthemethod.com
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Shaktim

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YouTube Hamlet 259 Autumnal twitter

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T I M M A L O N E Y ... Shaktim ... The Hamlet of YouTube

This TAKE is immediately after one of my classes with Jack Stehlin and his Master Class at The Odyssey Theatre ... http://www.circustheatricals.com.As you can see, I am beginning to shift my awareness on camera from a presentation state... to a moment to moment awareness of my breath and the text and where that is taking me... taking longer pauses when the impetus to speak is not there... For the most part, even with the Stripped Green shirt, I successfully rendered this TAKE with out my 'head' coming in to take me out of the moment... The TAKES you will see in the next dozen or so TAKES that I upload will illustrate more fully, the steps I am taking to 'Own Shakespeares' Words' ... I thank you for following me on my journey of self discovery with a role that I always felt was FAR away from my grasp... But now, feel that with a Shakespeare Glossary in hand ... and my well schooled brain on How to Stress from Geoffrey Owens... that I will indeed succeed in making my CRAZY dream a REALITy... 

Tim recently had the honor of following Sir Laurence Olivier in 'To Be or Not To Be in Shakespare', sharing one of his YouTube Hamlets, in a documentary shown on the British TV Channel More 4, on Christmas Day... 

'Dreams are Made of Action'

One actor ... 365 TAKES 

peace,
Shaktim

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Hamlet 365 Shaktim...The Hamlet of YouTube Part 1 

Welcome to my experiment! Shakespeares' Hamlet, from Tim Maloney...Shaktim, The Hamlet of YouTube. This playlist is dedicated to one actor taking one monologue, or in this case, a soliloquy from Hamlet, arguably one of the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays and offering YouTubers a unique insight into what its actually like for an actor to 'Work out a Character' using repetition as part of the rehearsal process. I am committed to offering 365 takes of this one monologue and hope you will continue sending me emails with your thoughts and feelings and critiques. I've discovered another reason to make this statement, besides the obvious of marketing my talents to begin a professional film and tv career and that is to inspire people to persevere and follow their dreams, their bliss. My bliss is performing Characters and entertaining. Oprah inspired me to do just that... and becoming a Shakespearean Actor has been a dream of mine ever since I realized that I had a naturally, yet uncanny ability to understand his words. Could i have been in his original troupe? I want to play Hamlet on Stage and Character Driven work on film. You can view my first time playing Hamlet in a short film http://www.HamletvsGoodzilla.c om , from an Experimental Film class at UCLA. Gabby Gruen, Director/Writer. http://www.timmaloney.biz and http://www.tmaseva.org are two more sites you might check out.

KudoSurf Me!

So I get this email out of the blue on YouTube that asks for my permission to share a bit of one of my Hamlet Takes for a Documentary on Shakespeare airing on Christmas Day in the UK. I'm like, what? Are you kidding? Of course... take any one you like. Then I think about it. And I read their website and it talks about witty and I'm like, "oh... they want to make fun of my Hamlet". So I write the producer and explain that I'm a comedy guy and being made fun of would be just as cool as being taken seriously. I mean, who am I to think I could pull off a professional version of Hamlet? I'm just a singer trying to become a working actor. 

Then I get a new email from the guy and he says, no Tim, we want your serious, heartfelt version. Whew ! ... I was very happy. But then I thought about what my new acting teacher told me when he said that at this point in the play Hamlet might not have as much 'emotion/vulnerability' as I was playing him with. Needless to say, I have sent the package of teary eyed Hamlets to the UK and now it is up to them whether they use one or not. Here is a little promo they have on their website:

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Whats it like to play the great Shakespearean roles? This forthcoming documentary film will accompany a season of classic Shakespeare performances on Channel 4 and is due to be transmitted on Christmas Day 2008. 

To Be Or Not To Be In Shakespeare will explore the human realities of taking on these iconic parts. Seneca Productions is in the process of interviewing some of the nations most celebrated interpreters of Shakespeare in what we hope will be a witty and revealing exploration of the agonies and the ecstasies of playing the Bard. The result will be an engaging insight into the greatest dramatic writer ever born, by some of the people who have gotten to know him best the actors who have spent huge swathes of a lifetime playing his roles.

So, with that said, I am very happy to have been included in this project... if I make it on the editing room floor, thats ok, cause it was an honor just being asked. With that, I say goodnight and I leave you with HOPE !!! for the future when I make it back home, from whence I came, starring on Broadway, in Beach Blanket Bingo !!!

(a line from my Cabaret)

peace,

Shaktim

'Dreams are Made of Action'

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