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Karnataka Sangha November Tue 10, 08:00 pm Prithvi Theatre November Mon 9, 06:00 pm, 09:30 pm |
| AMITESH GROVER'S THE HAMLET QUARTET (Hindi) |
| 1 Hour (without interval) Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern act as the springboard from which young actors revisit Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The time is now, the world is one of violent and competing Internationalism where experience is mediated … raw theatre and live multimedia come together for this fascinating exploration. |
| Director's Note : Culture is made constantly and Shakespeare’s text is reconstructed, reappraised and reassigned all the time through diverse institutions, professional readings and amateur practice in specific contexts. HAMLET 3 is an attempt to present Shakespeare’s Hamlet (the base text chosen by our team) by forcing 20th Century literary writing, which rereads and revises the context and narrative of the original text, back into the original. This (re) writing belongs to the scripts of two well known authors – Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Both these texts extend the premise of the original, pushing and pulling its structure, character-logy and significance in diametrically placed positions. While the former maps explosively the political crisis of the Modern Man post-world war, post-holocaust and locates him amongst contending national & international identities, the latter ridicules the existential dilemmas of the same man with warmth, wit and deliberation. All three texts thrust the limits of language and imagery to their very extreme. The show is arranged episodically and young performers from different regions of India have been drawn into this production to grapple with concurrent renderings of Shakespeare. Finally, the appreciation of Hamlet belongs to the development of the critical faculty, an informed reflection and hesitation in a time of violent and competing Internationalism. |
| Cast : |
| Gertrude, Rosencrantz & Clown 1 Laxmi Rawat The Ghost, Claudius, Polonius & Laertes Nitin Kishor Bhajan Ophelia, Guildenstern & Clown 2 Savitha Rani Hamlet Vipin Bhardwaj Scripts Rearrangement & New Writing Keshav Kumar Paroch Direction & Video Design Amitesh Grover Sets, Lights Design & Stage Management Randhir Kumar Costume Design Nitin Kishor Bhajjan Acknowledgements NSD and all its technical departments for immense support, Dr. Anuradha Kapur, Abhilash Pillai, Adil Hussain, Maya Rao & Dr. Ratna Panniker, S.Manoharan, Thyagarajan |