Hamlet

DRAMA

Theater am Goetheplatz

by William Shakespeare
Translated into German by Jürgen Gosch and Angela Schanelec
6:30 p.m. Introduction
with audio description and tactile guidance (starts at 6:15 p.m.)

A prince without a crown, a Dane without a mark. His father, the king, has died, and Hamlet is inconsolable. “Do not constantly search for your father in the dust with downcast eyes,” says his mother. “You know it is the way of the world: what lives must die.” But Hamlet cannot and will not accept that everyone is simply moving on. This is also because he believes he knows who is to blame for his father’s death. His grief deepens into an existential crisis. In a world where order has “gone awry,” Claudius’s quest for power clashes with Hamlet’s doubts. Hamlet searches for the truth, wrestles with himself, and distrusts his own perceptions. He hesitates and dithers, seeking certainty where none exists, not wanting to become a murderer himself. And yet the revenge drama takes its course. With an all-male cast, we ask ourselves: What does William Shakespeare tell us about spaces for grief and emotion? About doubt and the search for meaning? How do we deal with the certainty that what lives must die? It’s a good thing that a theater troupe takes the stage first to act all of this out for us.

Presented by Bremen Zwei.