Hamlet (oder die Mausefalle)

In the organizer's words:

YOUNG ACTORS

Small house

from 14 years
after William Shakespeare in a version by Joanna Praml and Dorle Trachternach
Director: Joanna Praml

Time is out of joint! Hamlet, the young prince of Denmark, is just about to set out in life when he is haunted by the ghost of his father and given the task of avenging his father's death. Hamlet almost breaks down in the face of this task and, almost incidentally, plunges his family, friends and the entire kingdom into ruin. Together with Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero, ten young people face the tasks that the world has in store for them. They encounter the ghost of Hamlet's dead father, try to bring the truth to light with a theater within a theater and wrestle time and again with the force of the overpowering material. They become entangled in contradictions and sword fights, ask themselves questions of meaning and, in the end, always come face to face with themselves. To be or not to be? Director Joanna Praml, whose energetic and touching rewrites can be seen in many theaters in Germany and Switzerland, stages a contemporary adaptation with young actors that opens up new perspectives on the classic material.