Elisabeth LeCompte / The Wooster Group
William Shakespeare /Wooster Group
Elizabeth LeCompte / Hamlet
© Photo : Paula Court ©
© Photo : Paula Court ©
© Photo : Paula Court ©
Hamlet
The Wooster Group
By William Shakespeare
French premiere
Directed by: Elizabeth LeCompte
Space design: Ruud van den Akker
Lighting design: Jennifer Tipton, Gabe Maxson
Sound: Geoff Abbas, Joby Emmons, Matt Tierney
Video: Reid Farrington
Costume design: Claudia Hill
Production: Bozkurt Karasu
Assistant to the director: Teresa Hartmann
Stage and costume Assistant: Ariella Beth Bowden
Sword training: Felix Ivanov
Movement: Natalie Thomas
Performed by Ari Fliakos, Lola Pashalinski, Daniel Pettrow, Scott Shepherd, Casey Spooner, Kate Valk, Judson Williams
Co-produced by The Wooster Group, 30th Barcelona Festival Grec - Institut de Cultura and Ajuntamento de Barcelona
Co-presented by Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou and Festival d’Automne à Paris
This resolutely contemporary Hamlet, also resolutely true to the original, is filtered through the sound and image technology in which the group excels. Footage from various Hamlets is sampled and collectively reinterpreted and performed to highlight the cultural layers attached to this seminal text. And the actors’ bodies improvise their dialogue with the images shown on monitors, providing a new reading of the play.
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