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Prince Hamlet

  

PRINCE HAMLET is a 50 minutes long version of Shakespeare's drama. One actor and an indian ta`bla together on stage. The show was the opening performance of the studio theatre at Drammen Theatre. In our show we have linked this timeless play, one of the most performed in the world, with the contrasts influencing our time. There is a particular emphasis on the challenges young people are facing; perhaps Hamlet isn't just an angry, revengeful young man torn with doubt, but also a vulnerable soul poisoned by his own time. The show is dwelling on the choices Hamlet is forced to make and focusing on the seven monologues in the play. Prince Hamlet was played on a bare, black stage, with the set of just one drawn line dividing the room in two.; the world was about to fall apart… The show opens with Hamlet naked on stage, covered by a sheet full of blood, asking himself and the audience the question: "What is a man?..."

- A one man show based on the text by Shakespeare

 

Director/Dramatising: Einar Bjørge
Actor/ Producer: Rune Temte
Musician/ Ta`bla: Jai Shankar
Set Designer: Hans Petter Harbo
Lights: Gro Kristensen
Poster: Jenny Rydehagen
Costumes: Thea Glimsdal

 

Opening night: 19.February 1997, Drammen Theatre Number of performances: 10 Number of Audience: 800 Opened in Oslo: 27.February 1997, Black Box Theatre Number of performances: 4 Number of Audience: 84

The performance is a co-production with Drammen Theatre and is funded by: Fund for Performing Artists, Oslo Community, Norwegian Actors Union. Sponsorship: Odin Kabel A/S.

 

"To present the dilemma of Hamlet in 50 minutes with just one actor, will it work? Yes, because the people behind Prince Hamlet made some very wice choices." Drammens Tidene 20th of February 1997

"To choose Jai Shankar as a musical collaborator was very clever. With his two small drums he creates an active piece of sound set in a way that other instruments would have had hard to do…" Fremtiden 20th of February 1997 (dice mark 4)

 
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