Welcome to Speak The Speech; the podcast from Australia’s national theatre company Bell Shakespeare, celebrating some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches with some of our best-known actors, directors and thinkers.
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Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Hamlet from Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 performed by Leon Ford
In this episode, award-winning actor, screenwriter, director and author Leon Ford joins James to unpack the remarkable "What a piece of work is a man" speech from Hamlet, and discuss why playing the young prince was a highlight of his career. Leon’s Bell Shakespeare credits include the title roles in Hamlet and Tartuffe. On screen he has starred in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, ABC’s The Letdown and the upcoming Jeremy Sims film Rams. As a director, Leon’s first feature film, Griff the Invisible, premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and won an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay.
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