Hamlet – Premiere

In the organizer's words:

JUNGES.THEATERBREMEN

Small house

from 14 years
after William Shakespeare in a version by Joanna Praml and Dorle Trachternach
Director: Joanna Praml
A young actors' production

The world is out of joint! Hamlet, the young prince of Denmark, is about to set out in life when he is haunted by the ghost of his father and given the task of avenging his father's death. Hamlet almost breaks down in the face of this task and, almost incidentally, plunges his family, friends and the entire kingdom into ruin. Together with Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero, ten young people set out in search of the tasks that the world has in store for them and the sometimes seemingly unsolvable demands that society and their parents place on them. They ask themselves questions of meaning, become entangled in contradictions and sword fights and in the end, they always come face to face with themselves. To be or not to be?

Director Joanna Praml, whose energetic and touching rewrites can be seen in many theaters in Germany and Switzerland, stages a contemporary adaptation with young actors that opens up new perspectives on a classic subject matter.