"Interpreting Shakespeare is a challenge. Playing Hamlet is a mystery. More than any other play, this one constantly refers us to who we are, to our time, to our reality."
We know the characters in Hamlet. Over time, in our imagination, they have become emblematic of all sorts of emotions: melancholy for Hamlet, insanity for Ophelia, guilty passion for Gertrude, greed for Claudius, revenge for Laërte. But through these characters and features, is it not the reflection of the human race, the theatre of ourselves that is shown?
For this tragedy, the tragedy of the decisions to be made that "define" who we are, the director
Guy-Pierre Couleau aspires to enter the dilemma of "this dazzling masterpiece of double entendre theatre" where justice and innocence move as spectres on the spider's web of Shakespeare's work. For example, is Claudius guilty of succeeding his brother? When Hamlet kills the new king, is he doing justice to his dead father? Was Gertrude wrong to remake her life? Is Ophelia who commits suicide innocent? Finally, at every moment of our adult lives: what to do?
Guy-Pierre Couleau chooses Peter Brook's adaptation of the French text by Jean-Claude Carrière and Marie-Hélène Estienne, and seeks a sober aesthetic that plays with reflections and transparencies. Centred on the acting of the actors, whose presences are those of today but inhabited by passions written at the very end of the 16th century, this tragedy will therefore be a play of our time, timeless.
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