Hamlet's story always unfolds the same way and yet differently. Everyone who approaches one of Shakespeare's most famous texts leaves something of themselves in it.
At the beginning of Hamlet, Shakespeare created a question, and in the silence beyond the end of his personal tragedy, even more questions await us than at the beginning. The questions mirror other questions... The play can never end, because it always gives us new questions. How to resist evil? To be or not to be? What to do? How to act? Is there any point in acting at all?
Hamlet is a fascinating play in its structure - it is truly the Da Vinci Code - where everything is connected to everything. It combines political tragedy with family tragedy, one influencing the other. A tragedy of thought and action. A young Danish prince returns from his studies to attend his father's funeral. The place on the throne and next to the queen (his mother) already belongs to his uncle. Who is Hamlet? An oversensitive spoiled son, a deep intellectual or an irreconcilable avenger? Our Hamlet will be a bit of a seeker of truth in today's torn times. It turns out that revealing wrongdoing and convicting is not the hardest thing, it is much harder not to lose yourself in the process.
A story about madness in a crazy time that reminds us very much of the time we live in. Where does the limit of human conscience lie, the courage to stand up to evil and the strength to take matters into our own hands? Is it possible to keep a clean slate in the dirt? And can love survive? A play about whether there is more to living than just being.......
Ľuboš Kostelný (Hamlet) won the Slovak theater community's DOSKY award in the category of best male actor of the 2021/2022 season.
Approximate duration of the performance: 11:30 p.m.
