OK, folks, let’s wrap this thing up. FINAL SCENE!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Rejected Shakespearean band name: Osric’s Hat
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 (part 4)
Today’s comic shows us the origins of the phrase “wrestling in a graveyard”!
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I’m sorry, I’ve just been told that the phrase in question is “whistling in a graveyard”. My mistake. Carry on.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Oh hey, there’s only one scene left in this play! As long as nothing major happens in it, we should be done pretty quickly!
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 (part 3)
It’s August! And we’re still doing Hamlet! Send help!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
This was a struggle. I’m not great at action sequences. Not looking forward to the duel, tbh.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 (part 2)
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! It’s “bit with the skull” time!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
“Hamlet always has his skull”.
I’m taking next week off, but will be back here with more graveyard hijinks in August!
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 (part 1)
We’ve made it to Act 5! There are only two scenes in Act 5, so this shouldn’t take too long, right?
….RIGHT????
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Confession: Second Gravedigger is my favorite gravedigger. First Gravedigger is a bit of a jerk.
Stick-Figure Iconography: Gravediggers
We’re finally done with Act 4! Let’s take a look at some of the new characters we’re about to meet as we embark upon THE FINAL ACT.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Hatless gravediggers are very rare, possibly endangered.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 6 (part 2)
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Drawing on Shakespeare
Last week Austin Tichenor of The Reduced Shakespeare Company and Gary Andrews, artist, animator, cartoonist, and fellow Shakespeare geek, invited me to join them for an informal jaw-and-draw session. You can see the results here:
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 6 (part 1)
We’re almost done with this act, I promise.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
“Unction of a Mountebank” is my new band name.