Hamlet- The Clown Prince

Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Tel Aviv: 16-18 May @ Cameri Theatre, 8:30pm

For more information: www.cameri.co.il
For tickets: 1-700-707-990

A bunch of clowns are putting up a show of Hamlet- they sometimes misinterpret the text, sometimes find new meanings in it, sometimes try and understand it, very often make a mess of it. They chose to use some phrases from the play and mixed it with gibberish. They even edited the text, threw out some important scenes, and made a mess of the order of things as if the pages got mixed up. But through all this, they were simply looking for the essence of Hamlet, and trying to find a context in our own.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This play is a search in the world of Hamlet through the eyes of Clown. The clown has fascinated me for many years and this motif appears again and again in all my work including my film work. It is through the eyes of a clown that I wanted to explore the vast world of Hamlet. The result is a comic way in which the actors have improvised the various parts of the play and yet touched upon the tragedy of the young prince.

-Rajat Kapoor

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