So bin wieder zu hause und konnte es kaum erwarten, den Download zu starten,..... nun schwelge ich hier und lausche bedächtig Richards Stimme... und ...

Ja, damit wollte ich nicht sagen, er hasse die Aufgabe bzw. Thematik oder so. Ich nehme an, wenn das so wäre, dann hätte er was anderes gemacht, d.h., nicht dieses Projekt. Bloß sieht es so passend aus -- er brauchte eine schnelle bezahlte Arbeit, um seine Aufenthalt zu sichern.

David Hewson ‏@david_hewson 26 Min.
So @authorajhartley and I end up this week No 5 on the Audible US fiction bestsellers with Hamlet. Thank you all! pic.twitter.com/YM3Pcrb72V



RichardArmitageNet ‏@RAnetdotcom 21 Min.
@david_hewson @authorajhartley amazing and fantastic. Well done both!

Ich liebe dieses Hörbuch! Ich habe es heute an einem Stück durchgehört. Es ist richtig gut gemacht und es langweilt nicht, auch wenn man die Geschichte schon kennt. Richard hat da ganze Arbeit geleistet. Man kann förmlich hören wie viel Spaß er daran gehabt hat Young Yorick zu sprechen.

This post has already more than five hundred words and I have not written anything yet of the narrator… I guess that, in this moment, very few actors would have been able to narrate this book as Richard Armitage has. In my opinion the narration of an audiobook is by far more difficult than to participate in an audiodrama where the work is shared by a group of actors and the sound effects help the hearer’s imagination. Here everything is made by himself, pure acting, a man alone (with a director behind the booth) in front of a microphone. And, as happened in the beginning of times, when our ancestors gathered in front of the fire to hear the story teller, the magic is created, apparently from nothing. The magic potion cooked by the authors in their cauldron comes to life and his voice guides us to that world. The scene of the murder of Pollonius and the following dialogue, the confrontation between Gertrude and Hamlet, are one of the most moving performances that I have ever heard “I wonder how a woman who wept for THIS man goes to THIS in less time that take to a funeral banquet to ROT! I have dogs that are more loyal”, with the enhanced difficulty that between the “this man” and “goes to this”, the voice of Hamlet, broken by the emotion, is mixed with the impassive tone of the narrator. I guess this is something extremely difficult to make, technically speaking. Of all the repertoire of voices that Richard has created for this audiobook two are my favourite ones: Claudius and Gregor Macbeth. The voice of the king is the more “Thorin-like” of all: deep, profound, conveys perfectly to the reader the complexity of Claudius’ psychology “I killed your father for good reason… I never wanted your life too. Yet foul deeds begot others”.

Many other hearings of this audiobook will follow and I’m sure that with each of them I will discover something new.