Hamletting

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre - BiTeater

Première 21. 11. 2014, Kulturnica LGL
Running time 1 hour 10 minutes. No interval.

Based on Hamlet by W. Shakespeare (translator Srečko Fišer)

Director Tjaša Črnigoj
Language consultant and dramaturg Maša Jazbec
Music Gregor Kocijančič
Costume designer Minka Rozman
Lighting designer Tjaša Črnigoj, Janko Oven, Andrej Petrovčič
Stage managers Andrej Petrovčič, Janko Oven
Producer Pija Bodlaj

Cast
Rok Kravanja
Iztok Drabik Jug

Shakespeare’s Hamlet was written at the very beginning of the 17^th century, a period marked by a radical changes in the cultural atmosphere. Once again one set to observe the world with doubtful eyes and in spite of ceaseless intensive social-political upheavals the world still didn’t find firm ground. Hamlet strives to be a tragedy of vengeance; yet in a world that doubts the old order, such a tragedy doesn’t find its expression and place. Shakespeare writes Hamlet while obstructing the form of tragedy with human lowliness and buffoonery. Hamlet is deprived of a single action in focus; the text vacillates amid the dispersion of the eternally failed action. Hamlet is a poisonous scream, the expression of one’s innermost fear in front of one’s own inability to attain realisation in this world.

Hamletting is an event shaped as a carnivalesque confrontation of two performers, two individuals who carry out Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a full dose of mental sharpness and convulsive physicality – each for himself and one against another.

Foto: Miha Fras

Foto: Miha Fras

Foto: Miha Fras

Foto: Miha Fras