Hamlet

by William Shakespeare and Richard Armour

This is a different and engaging performance that presents Shakespeare’s serious plot with wit and lightness.

Director: Sabi Sabev

Set Designer: Emiliyana Andonova – Toteva

Music: Veselin Koychev

Cast: Lambreti Kolev, Andrey Ivanov, Dimitar Nikolov - Shablata, Stayko Staykov

The text is based on both Shakespeare’s original and the ironic commentary of the American Shakespeare scholar Richard Armour – "Shakespeare in a Bawdy Mirror".

The four actors, who will draw on these texts, will examine their own complexes in the stage’s crooked mirror. These complexes will be driven by a purely human fear — the fear of death. This fear turns the characters from Shakespeare’s tragedy of revenge into victims. And once you are a victim, and you realize it, it becomes even more frightening. And you try to escape that role. In fact, you are running away from yourself.

These are the metamorphoses we want to follow in our performance, with the help of puppets.

Here the puppets are divided into two types. The innocent marionettes — these are the “young hopes” of Elsinore — Hamlet, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Fortinbras. The remaining characters are somehow connected to the patinated atmosphere of the palace. They seem to crawl out of some niches and then retreat back into them.