Interpreting Hamlet today is inevitably a challenge that means addressing what is a key work for Western culture, of which there have been infinite interpretations. Teatro Del Carretto of Lucca, one of the Italian companies that are most successful abroad, has created a product from the perspective of the main character, reading him like a diary, in an autistic game with a single dimension. Thought and action follow each other and the Prince of Denmark creates the story and animates the characters, making them invincible or destroying them at will. Maria Grazia Cipriani’s reworking of Shakespeare’s play is a full-blooded, excessive play, balanced between dirty melodrama and ardent contemporary language, highlighting, or breaking every theatrical convention, and combining tragic scenes with moments of comedy that reveal the psychoanalytical and political interpretation in transparency, highlighting the drama of the man himself, alone with his ghosts and his doubts whether to be or not to be.
from William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Maria Grazia Cipriani/sets and costumes Graziano Gregori
sound Hubert Westkemper/lighting Angelo Linzalata
with Gabriele Gallinari, Elsa Bossi, Giacomo Vezzani, Nicolò Belliti, Giacomo Pecchia, Carlo Gambaro, Andrea Jonathan Bertolai
Teatro del Carretto
