Forestilling:
Hamlets Tvivl – Shakespeare uden ord
Hamlet er blevet gartner – og publikum er helt tæt på
Performance:
Hamlet’s Doubt – Shakespeare Without Words
Hamlet has become a gardener – and the audience gets up close.
Forestilling:
Hamlets Tvivl
Hamlet er blevet gartner – og publikum er helt tæt på
Performance:
Hamlet’s Doubt – Shakespeare Without Words
Hamlet has become a gardener – and the audience gets up close.
Spilleperiode:
3.8 – 29.8
Billetpris:
Gratis
Performance period:
Aug 3 – Aug 29
Price:
Free
Hvad sker der, hvis man tager verdens mest berømte drama om tvivl, destillerer det til sin enkleste kerne – og giver Hamlet en græsslåmaskine?
I august inviterer HamletScenen til Hamlets Tvivl – en ny, anderledes og sanselig familieoplevelse under åben himmel på Kronborg.
Shakespeares Hamlet kredser om et enkelt, men næsten umuligt dilemma: Hamlet skal beslutte, om han vil hævne sin far, den gamle konge, ved at dræbe den nye konge, som har taget hans plads. Men Hamlet tvivler. Han tænker, tøver, handler – og fortryder.
I Hamlets Tvivl er hele dette store drama destilleret til en legende og genkendelig situation.
Hamlet er blevet gartner på Kronborg.
Den gamle konge er blevet til en gammel håndskubber. Den nye konge er blevet til en supermoderne motorklipper, som har overtaget dens plads.
Og Hamlet står tilbage med det samme problem som hos Shakespeare:
Skal han acceptere den nye – eller hævne den gamle?
Han vil egentlig bare slå græsset.
Men med den gamle håndskubber og den nye motorklipper foran sig bliver selv den simpleste opgave pludselig umulig.
Han prøver.
Stopper.
Tænker.
Prøver igen.
Hvilken maskine skal han vælge? Hvad er det rigtige at gøre?
Og hvad sker der, når man tænker så længe over sit valg, at man til sidst næsten ikke kan handle?
Hamlets Tvivl er en 20 minutters ordløs forestilling fyldt med fysisk komik, mimik og genkendelige menneskelige situationer. Publikum sidder helt tæt på, mens et af Shakespeares største eksistentielle dramaer udspiller sig – med to græsslåmaskiner og en mand, der ikke kan beslutte sig.
Børnene kan grine af Hamlets kamp med maskinerne og situationens absurditet. De voksne vil måske genkende noget andet:
Tvivlen. Gentagelsen. Frygten for at vælge forkert. Følelsen af at gå i stå.
For selv om Shakespeare skrev Hamlet for mere end 400 år siden, er spørgsmålet stadig det samme:
Hvad gør vi, når vi ved, at vi skal handle – men ikke ved, hvad der er det rigtige at gøre?
Forestillingen spilles fire gange dagligt i voldanlægget på Kronborg og er gratis at opleve.
20 minutter. Ingen ord. To græsslåmaskiner. Ét næsten umuligt valg.
Det er Shakespeare – helt ned til kernen.
Praktisk info
What happens when you take the world’s most famous drama about doubt, distil it to its simplest essence – and give Hamlet a lawnmower?
This August, HamletScenen invites audiences to experience Hamlet’s Doubt – a new, playful and sensory family performance under the open sky at Kronborg Castle.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet revolves around a simple but almost impossible dilemma: Hamlet must decide whether to avenge his father, the old king, by killing the new king who has taken his place. But Hamlet doubts. He thinks, hesitates, acts – and regrets.
In Hamlet’s Doubt, this great drama is distilled into a playful and instantly recognisable situation.
Hamlet has become a gardener at Kronborg Castle.
The old king has become an old-fashioned push mower.
The new king has become a super-modern motorised lawnmower that has taken its place.
And Hamlet is left with the same dilemma he faces in Shakespeare’s play:
Should he accept the new – or avenge the old?
All he really wants to do is mow the lawn.
But with the old push mower and the new motorised mower in front of him, even the simplest task suddenly becomes impossible.
He tries.
Stops.
Thinks.
Tries again.
Which mower should he choose? What is the right thing to do?
And what happens when you think about a choice for so long that, in the end, you can barely act at all?
Hamlet’s Doubt is a 20-minute wordless performance filled with physical comedy, mime and recognisable human situations. The audience sits close to the action as one of Shakespeare’s greatest existential dramas unfolds – with two lawnmowers and a man who simply cannot make up his mind.
Children can laugh at Hamlet’s struggle with the machines and the absurdity of the situation. Adults may recognise something else:
The doubt. The repetition. The fear of making the wrong choice. The feeling of being unable to move forward.
Because even though Shakespeare wrote Hamlet more than 400 years ago, the question remains the same:
What do we do when we know we have to act – but do not know what the right thing to do is?
The performance takes place four times a day in the grounds of Kronborg Castle and is free to attend.
20 minutes. No words. Two lawnmowers. One almost impossible choice.
It’s Shakespeare – distilled to its very essence.
Practical information
“Det er en forestilling, man ikke skal forstå – man skal mærke den”
Lars Romann Engel, kunstnerisk chef, HamletScenen
“It’s not a performance you need to understand – you need to feel it.”
Lars Romann Engel, Artistic Director, HamletScenen
