Hamlet
Boris Nikitin
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Tickets
Full price: 20 €
Reduced, Friend & Small groups (5-9 people): 16 €
Large groups (10+ people): 14 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 10 €
Duration
90 minutes
"Hamlet" is a poetic revolt: raw, confronting, iridiscent, antisocial. A subversive and riveting performance from the young and unconventional Boris Nikitin.
The new work by the Swiss-french-ukrainian director Boris Nikitin that has moved strongly the audiences at the premiere in Switzerland two months ago, is presented at the Onassis Stegi as part of the hommage to the great Elizabethan dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his death.
In a performance between queer and punk, the dazzling performer and electro musician Julian Meding is crossfading his own biography with the one of a contemporary Hamlet, protesting against reality. Nikitin’s and Meding's “Hamlet” is not retelling the story of Shakespeares play but it is using it as a frame to rethink identity, individuality, illness and reality. Τhey transform Shakespeare’s most popular work, in an electro-pop performance that plays games with our gaze, our imagination and our desire.
Photo: Donata Ettlin
Saturday 17 December
A discussion with the participants will follow after the performance “By Heart”
Moderated by Savas Patsalidis, Τheater critic and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“With Nikitin’s "Hamlet" the discussion about reality and realness in contemporary theatre takes a new step”
– Theater der Zeit
“It’s an evening that holds us because it makes us oscillate. Like very few others Boris Nikitin pushes contemporary theatre to a critical point”
–Theater heute
Credits
Concept, Director, Text
Boris Nikitin
Performance, Text
Julian Meding
Songs
Uzrukki Schmidt
Video
Elvira Isenring
Production Management
Annett Hardegen
Author rights
schaefersphilippen, Colone
Translation
Lenia Zafiropoulou
A production by
Boris Nikitin
The performance is co-commissioned by
Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zürich, Theatre Vidy Lausanne, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr
Supported by
Münchner Kammerspiele, HAU-Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
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