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Love is a letter…
By Nicholas | March 11, 2008
Here is another video, made by me on Sunday using music from my latest CD “Hamlet”, to be launched next month. I originally created this music for the Teatro Instavel production of Shakespeare’s play - which premièred at the Olga Cadaval Theatre, Sintra in February 2007 - and the piece called Loveletter (used for this video) accompanied Ophelia’s first appearance, when Hamlet’s letter to her was read by her father Polonius to the King. The play shows how the indirect expression of love may reveal deep underlying uncertainties with tragic consequences; centuries later Hamlet’s letter to Ophelia was used textually by Portugal’s most emblematic modern poet, Fernando Pessoa, to express his feelings towards a girl with the same name, with similarly unfortunate results for him (the connection between Hamlet and Pessoa will be explored by André Gago in a new show “Hamlet, Heterónimos, Pessoas” to be premièred on World Theatre Day during the residency of Teatro Instavel at the Malaposta Theatre). In my video love is firmly associated with bodily presence through the magnificent art and photography of Marian Fanny Christian. For full screen click here.
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