Directing

2009 February 28th

In a Shakespeare class I was in, we watched a few different versions of Hamlet. Although all of the words were the same, each version told a different story. For our final exam, the professor had us each write a summary of yet another take on the same story. I found I could still tell it another way.

In the story of Hamlet, like most stories in life, there are numerous versions that can be told. Each story represents a moment, or group of moments converging together. Stories don't step outside of the rules of infinity. From any given point, all is infinite in all directions. Yes, there are facts in stories, but for each fact, there are tons of perceptions about the fact, the meaning, the reason, the why, the....

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