HAMLET
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HAMLET
Directed by: Themis Moumoulidis
HAMLET, William Shakespeare's masterpiece, will be presented by the 5th Age. With Hamlet, Shakespeare brings to the world theatre a monumental play that, for centuries now, has become legendary—a dive into the essence of man and, at the same time, a requiem to his dark side. Through Hamlet, Shakespeare describes his time, which is also our time—a timeless and profoundly political text. Themis Moumoulidis attempts a modern stage reading of the work with a group of important actors led by Anastassi Roylo in the role of Hamlet.
Using the magnificent poetic translation of Giorgos Heimonas as a vehicle, the performance follows the "collapse" of a world incapable of obeying rules and ethics. A dark, ruthless world where friendship and blood relations mean nothing. A "ready-made" world of expediency and selfishness: this country is called Animalia. Hamlet knows from the start that this world is rotten and must be destroyed: no use of the world is good. Sink in! Throughout the play, Hamlet-Shakespeare, with the theatrical machine as his only weapon, does not stop revealing and denouncing. Shakespeare commissions Hamlet to "stage" a play within the play so that spectators and protagonists of the tragedy can, through the magnifying lens of the stage, experience the magnitude of the decadence, which is absolutely impossible to avoid. Because the modelling world is already dead…