The rest is silence.

Well, who does know where the time goes... but apparently I've run out of hours to devote to this little project. It will just have to wait in line until next summer - or, maybe, three years from now - before rising to the top of my personal to-do list again.
For those few who've been reading along: if you've enjoyed it so far, great. If you've learned anything, even better. If you've thought more deeply about this amazing and astonishing play, and its amazing and astonishing effect on so many different people through the past four hundred years, that's best of all.
If I've given you any sense of my own answer to the question, "Why Hamlet?" and some awareness of the trainload of baggage I personally bring into the rehearsal hall every three to four years and never get a chance to talk about, then this blog has partially served its purpose. (Its other main purpose was, of course, to force me to start organizing the baggage cars, and in that I guess it's been partially successful, too!)
Since I didn't have the intention of providing free Level 4 or A+ essays for students, I've removed most of the content. If you really need material for an essay topic, ask me. Otherwise, happy trails to you, until we meet again!

Who knows where the time goes...

Across the evening sky
All the birds are leaving
But how can they know
It's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire
I will still be dreaming
I do not count the time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad deserted shore
your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, then you know
It's time for them to go
But I will still be here
I have no thought of leaving
You know I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone
While my love is near me
I know it will be so
Until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter
And then the birds in spring again
I do not fear the time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

So, it's all over for now. I intended to start this blog months ago as a place to share everything about Hamlet that I knew/thought/read/discovered but realized we'd never get to in class... but who knows where the times goes.
Anyway, congratulations to all. Especially to the senior actors. Especially to Hamlet.
And my heartfelt thanks for a job well done. Especially to all the support people who did so much of the work for none of the glory.
Now beware of Elsinore withdrawal - and don't say I didn't warn you! This show is addictive and painfully hard to leave behind (at least it has proved so for every other Playmakers! Hamlet cast). But like everything you commit to with your whole heart, this show is now a part of you forever. Nobody can take away or diminish what you've each accomplished.
You all have my undying affection and eternal gratitude, and I look forward so much to hearing about - or better still being part of - what comes next for each of you!