Hamlet

In the organizer's words:

Translated from the English by Angela Schanelec and Jürgen Gosch

The young Prince Hamlet learns of the death of his father, the King of Denmark, and immediately travels to his hometown to attend his father's funeral. But nothing is as it was when he left the country to study. His mother Gertrude is about to marry Claudius, his father's brother. Claudius is now the king of Denmark. The ghost of his father appears to Hamlet and reveals that Claudius has committed a poisonous murder against him. The ghost urges Hamlet to avenge the murder. Hamlet's feet are torn from under him. Should he take revenge? On whom? Who can he trust? Nothing seems certain anymore and the answers to his questions are unattainable. "Hamlet" tells of the clash between old and new order, of a reprehensible political system and of a young man's inner turmoil.

Christoph Mehler, acting director of the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, has already staged important theater classics such as "Three Sisters" by Chekhov and Ibsen's "Enemy of the People" at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and is now returning with Shakespeare. Hardly any other play is better known than "Hamlet". What other play could be recognized by a single object - the skull? But it's worth a fresh look!