HAMLET - TIME OUT OF JOINT

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"Hamlet" is a turning point in Shakespeare's dramatic work - and perhaps also in human history, in which the jewel "Hamlet" opens up a new dimension. Until then, Shakespeare had written historical dramas and comedies of high quality, which in no way came close to the works that now follow and are set beyond all previously known genres: King Lear and The Tempest. It is not only "the psychological" that is new; the play as a whole, with all its ramifications and its political charge, generates resonance (for centuries) as a model for complex psychological and historical processes. Why? How is this possible?

The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan recognizes one of the prerequisites in contact with death. "Hamlet" is the drama of the encounter with death. In fact, Shakespeare's father and his son Hamnet die before the play is written, while disturbing signs of the end of the semi-peaceful Elizabethan age increase. - On the other hand, it is hardly a controversial feature of Western culture to avoid this encounter at all costs and almost blindly (or in a state of consumption). And perhaps this is why "Hamlet" has provoked the most contradictory and even eccentric interpretations in literary history, because hardly anyone confronts the experience of the greatest uncertainty at the heart of the drama: Hamlet's confrontation with his dead father, his "sins" and his greatness, with obscenity and idealization: the father spirit that has emerged from the realm between life and death commands his son to settle the account that he himself has not paid... In question, then, is the inheritance, what it is worth and what one can still stand up for...

What a great template for this year's final project by the drama students at the HfMT - a final questioning shortly before entering professional life. "Hamlet - Zeit aus den Fugen" will be staged by Paris-based director Catherine Umbdenstock.

ACTING Aaron Brömmelhaup, Cedric Eich, Eileen Hoyningen Huene, Jonas Bonham Neubauer, Joey Nashaa Scholl, Kolja Schumann, Lasse Stadelmann

DIRECTOR Catherine Umbdenstock
STAGE Malte Knipping
COSTUME Jana Sophie Schweers
DRAMATURGY Ralf Fiedler

Performances at a glance:
04.04., 19:30
05.04., 19:30
06.04., 20:00
05.05., 19:30
10.05., 20:00

Admission: 30 EUR

Reduced: 15 or 9 EUR

Tickets are available at www.schauspielhaus.de

Final production of the drama course at the Theaterakademie Hamburg, Hochschule für Musik und Drama, in cooperation with the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg