Schaubühne Berlin: Hamlet
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Schaubühne Berlin: Hamlet

Venue:
Theatre YOUNG
NO.1155, Kongjiang Rd Yangpu Shanghai
Date:
11/1/2024 - 11/3/2024
Schaubühne Berlin: Hamlet
Closed

Schaubühne Berlin: Hamlet

11/1/2024 - 11/3/2024
Theatre YOUNG
NO.1155, Kongjiang Rd Yangpu Shanghai
180 - 880

Event details

👉 Exchanging paper ticket at the venue with the ticket code which you received via text message starting with【YOUNG剧场】
👉 Children under 1.2m are not allowed to enter
👉 Children over 1.2m will be admitted by full tickets
👉 No cancellation

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Director: Thomas Ostermeier
 
 
Hamlet is going crazy. His father has died suddenly of a strange disease, and his mother has married her deceased husband’s brother, of all people, after just one month. Hamlet has nighttime visions of his father, who claims his brother poisoned him, and exhorts Hamlet to take revenge and kill his new stepfather. Hamlet acts the part of the crazy man in order to hide his plans, and loses his grip on reality in the process. The whole world becomes a stagnant swamp to him. Desire and sexuality become a threatening abyss.
 
The friends surrounding him turn out to be spies deployed by his stepfather to keep an eye on him. Even Ophelia, his beloved, is a part of the scheme. The avenger becomes the prey, with an informer listening behind every curtain, as Hamlet’s paranoia proves to be not unfounded. The insane act turns to actual insanity, and Hamlet kills the wrong man: Polonius, Ophelia’s father. His mother and stepfather cover up the murder and keep Hamlet out of the public eye, and Hamlet’s plans for revenge seem to evaporate. He loses control of himself, his goals, and his life. Ophelia falls apart in the face of this and kills herself. When his stepfather decides finally to silence Hamlet, Hamlet seizes the opportunity at hand and with one final rampage forces his world to its knees.
 
 
 
Shakespeare represents the Danish royal court as a corrupt political system which becomes a paranoid maze for Hamlet. Murder, betrayal, manipulation and sexuality are the weapons used in the war to preserve power. Not able to take on and fight the cynical rules of the game at the court, Hamlet stagnates and turns his aggressions against himself. His gift of distinguishing pros and cons becomes an insurmountable hindrance in accomplishing his goals, and as the last person with scruples in a system without any, he is finally doomed. With its central paradox of the incapacitated protagonist, Hamlet remains today a valid analysis of the intellectual dilemma between complex thinking and political action.
 
Shakespeare serves up over twenty characters, allowing a political biosphere to arise out of differing interests and intrigue. In Ostermeier’s production, just six actors will play all these characters, constantly changing roles. Hamlet’s progressive loss of touch with reality, his disorientation, the manipulation of reality and identity are mirrored in the acting style, which takes pretence and disguise as its basic principle.
 
 
 

Notice

Date:
Friday, 1st Nov. - Saturday, 2nd Nov. @ 19:30
Sunday, 3rd Nov. @ 14:00
 
Price: 180/380/480/680/880
 
Duration: 160 mins (no intermission)
 
 
 
 
Ticket Collection Method
Please take your tickets at the Ticket Center of the YOUNG Theater (E2 gate of the theater) before the show, enter the ticket collection code on the self-service ticket machine with the 8-digit ticket collection code in the SMS which you received, and then enter the theater after exchanging the paper ticket.
 
working hours of ticket office: 10:00 - 20:00
 

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Schaubühne Berlin: Hamlet

Venue:
Theatre YOUNG
NO.1155, Kongjiang Rd Yangpu Shanghai
Date:
11/1/2024 - 11/3/2024
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