Writing at The American Conservative, TD has much to say about what he recently saw online:

Yesterday, I found what was advertised as a masterclass in the recitation of a soliloquy, posted by the National Theatre in London. It seems to me increasingly that English stage actors have two modes of recitation: mumbling or gross overemphasis—hamming it up in fact—with resultant harshness of diction.

So it was in this case, in one of Ophelia’s laments on Hamlet’s condition. But there was something more than mere harsh diction: Ophelia was played by an actress with achondroplasia—that is to say she was a dwarf.

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