Hamlet: von William Shakespeare

To be or not to be: The great Shakespeare classic about legacy and responsibility in Karin Henkel's Burgtheater production.

Prince Hamlet doesn't know what's happening to him. His father died just two months ago and his mother has already married his uncle Claudius. When the ghost of his dead father appears to him, telling him that he has been treacherously poisoned by his brother Claudius and asking him to avenge the murder, he becomes entangled in a web of madness and contradictions, role-playing, betrayal and intrigue, unable to act. In her production of Shakespeare's world-famous tragedy, Karin Henkel repeatedly resurrects the ghosts of the past. An incessant game of appearance and reality.
Karin Henkel began her theater career in the 1990s at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and is now one of the most successful directors in the German-speaking world. She has directed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Munich Residenztheater and the Salzburg Festival, among others. At Vienna's Burgtheater, she and a magnificent ensemble of actors are presenting Shakespeare's classic with more than just one Hamlet ...

A production of the BURG Vienna