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Hamlet

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  • Theatre
  • independent production
  • 2016
“"Hamlet" brings the debate on reality in contemporary theatre to a new level.”
— Theater der Zeit
“It's an evening that holds us while making us swing. (...) There are only a few directors who lead theatre to a critical point as Boris Nikitin currently does.”
— Theater heute
“Thus, above all hovers the question what theatre today is able to be and supposed to do. It's a constructive-provocative, grandiose evening that develops an electrifying pull.”
— Tagesanzeiger
“It is grim, raw, hallucinogenic.”
— theaterkrant.nl
“Created for these times of expansion of body consciousness as a battlefield and exposed to the gaze, this solo joins a list of hybrid stagings that require the opening of gaps in the intellectual and affective repertoire for their full reception.”
— teatrojornal (Brasilien)

Events

    • 27 + 28 June 2023
      • Biennale Teatro, Venedig
    • 24 + 25 February 2023
      • Festival FIBA Buenos Aires
    • 20 October 2019
      • Festival FETEAG Caruaru
    • 17 October 2019
      • Festival FETEAG Recife
    • 4 + 5 July 2018
      • Little Theatre, Cape Town
    • 28 – 30 June 2018
      • Nation Festival for the Arts, Grahamstown (South Africa)
    • 10 + 11 June 2018
      • Mousonturm, Frankfurt
    • 11 + 12 March 2018
      • Giro das Artes, Fortaleza
    • 6 – 8 March 2018
      • MIT Sao Paulo
    • 7 February 2018
      • Frascati, Amsterdam
    • 8 October 2017
      • FIT Lugano
    • 5 + 6 October 2017
      • Gessnerallee Zürich
    • 8 + 9 July 2017
      • Münchner Kammerspiele
    • 29 + 30 June 2017
      • Festival "Clasicos en Alcala", Madrid
    • 22 + 23 June 2017
      • Festival "Impulse", Köln
    • 7 – 9 June 2017
      • Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
    • 18 + 19 May 2017
      • Festival AUAWIRLEBEN
    • 23 – 26 March 2017
      • Théàtre Vidy Lausanne
      • Programme "commun"
    • 3 + 4 February 2017
      • Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
    • 16 – 18 December 2016
      • Onassis Cultural Centre Athen
    • 22 – 27 November 2016
      • La Vilette Paris
    • 4 November 2016
      • Mousonturm, LAB
    • 26 – 29 September 2016
      • Kaserne Basel
    • 24 September 2016
      • Kaserne Basel
      • World Premiere

Artistic works → Hamlet

»Hamlet” is not a retelling of Shakespeare’s play but uses Shakespeare’s material as a mask with which to reflect on identity, individuality, delusion and reality. In a mixture of experimental documentary performance and queer music-theatre, the performer and electro-musician Julian Meding takes on the role of a contemporary Hamlet rebelling against reality. Supported by the award-winning Basel string quartet »The Musical Garden”, Meding embarks on a tour de force, in which he reveals himself, his body and his biography to the eyes of the audience. Is it even Meding? Or is it Hamlet? Is everything just a game? To be or not to be? Or both at the same time? »Hamlet” is all about poetic revolt: raw, coarse-grained, confrontational, anti-social and dazzling.

Concept, direction, text
Boris Nikitin
Performance, text
Julian Meding
Songs
Uzrukki Schmidt
Baroque ensemble
Der musikalische Garten
Stage design, costumes
Nadia Fistarol
Video
Georg Lendorff, Elvira Isenring
Dramaturgy, sound
Matthias Meppelink
Musical conception, sound
Boris Nikitin, Uzrukki Schmidt, Matthias Meppelink, Der musikalische Garten
Stage design assistance
Susanna Lombardo, Helene Hunziker
Technical direction
Benjamin Hauser
Production management
Annett Hardegen

Cocomissioned by: Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee, Théatre Vidy, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr and La Villette Paris, Münchner Kammerspiele, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Südpol Luzern

Supported by: Fachausschuss Theater und Tanz BS/BL, Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner, Migros Kulturprozent, Kunststiftung NRW

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