HAMLET’S GLORY
To step into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is equivalent to entering the court museum of collective depression. On red cushions lie famous quotes like fine relics of cannonical theater. Mantras that we still doubt. And admire. Very fine making. Content: dreams and bones. Both dug up from graves. Dug up from skulls. Whose? Museum visitors must hold on to their heads firmly, not to have them fly away. Hamlet is still dangerous. Heads fly because persistently, after centuries and centuries of ruling political dementia, citizens still want to try the model of rebellion. The only problem is that no Mousetrap, not even Shakespeare’s, has proved efficient enough.
Claudius remains the manager of massacre. However, Mousetrap or art, says Beuys, must be the science of freedom. Freedom is a thing not obtained by entering a museum. Freedom needs to be invented every day.
Museums need to be given back to the Muses.
Nataša Govedić
Topic:
Giving thanks to our colleague Hamlet for a whole array of physical and philosophical peripeties he left us in his legacy.
Question:
If the Renaissance dramatic text is to a high degree comprised of bodies of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the playright himself, as well as a certain necromancy of ‘magnificent bodies’ Hamlet mourns, how is our relationship towards these questionably alive bodies of the past constituted, especially if considering the equally questionably alive bodies of today?
Who gives life to whom? Is there any ethics in this first (posthumous) aid? Is there burlesque? What in fact do we exchange with these characters/spectres?
performers: Silvia Marchig and Darko Japelj
texts: William Shakespeare, Darko Japelj, Nataša Govedić, Silvia Marchig
music: Nenad Hrgetić
costume design: Oliver Jularić
lighting design: Mario Vnučec
photographer: Jasenko Rasol
co-production: Cultural center Travno
duration: 60 minutes
premiere: 13 January 2012, Scena Travno, Cultural center Travno
