Hamlet — Premiere

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Theater am Goetheplatz

by William Shakespeare
German by Jürgen Gosch and Angela Schanelec
Directed by Alize Zandwijk

A prince without a crown, a Dane without a marrow. His father, the king, has died and Hamlet is inconsolable. "Don't keep looking for your father in the dust with lowered eyelids," says his mother. "You know it's mean: what lives must die." But Hamlet cannot and will not accept that everyone just carries on: his mother throws herself at Uncle Claudius and he throws on the king's cloak. Hamlet's grief turns into anger, despair and doubt. He hesitates and vacillates, wants certainty where there is none, does not want to become a murderer. And yet the revenge drama takes its course. What does Shakespeare's classic have to tell us about power and men, vengeance and violence, grief and the search for meaning? How do we deal with the certainty and meanness that what lives must die? How good that a theater troupe performs beforehand and plays all this out for us.

Presented by Bremen Zwei.