Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, everything is different: his father is dead, his mother is newly married to her late husband's brother. He is now running the affairs of state, intensifying the political rhetoric and arming himself. At night, the ghost of his dead father appears to Hamlet, accuses his own brother of poisoning him and calls on Hamlet to take revenge.

The world is out of joint - that is the clear conclusion. But what to do? In any case, Hamlet's will to act is hindered by a diffuse inability to act: sometimes his feelings, sometimes his conscience, sometimes his thoughts get in the way. The madness, which he chooses to mask when he is in his right mind in order to search for the truth undetected and undisturbed and to implement his plans for revenge, increasingly eats its way into reality. The boundaries between hunter and hunted, enlightenment and paranoia, madness and method become blurred. Until neither the others nor himself can be trusted anymore. Not even the beloved Ophelia. Friends become informers, relatives become murderers, what is offered seems false and what is offered seems wrong. Hamlet is both an imperative to stand up to the depravity of the world in constant protest and a portent. In the end, almost everyone is dead - "The rest is silence."

With Hamlet's tragedy, Thalia's in-house director Jette Steckel follows up "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Tempest. A Lullaby for Suffering", Thalia's in-house director Jette Steckel brings her third great Shakespeare to the stage of the Thalia Theater.

Duration 3:35h, including one intermission

Premiere January 23, 2020, Thalia Theater

Attention: in the 2nd part (after the intermission) there is a longer sequence with the use of stroboscopic light