UWE:festival – you with the sad eyes

In the organizer's words:

An international theater festival organized and curated by students of the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding in Munich!

German with English surtitles
Duration: 60 min, without intermission

"We may expect to feel crushed, inconsolable, mad in the face of loss. But we don't expect to be literally mad (...)" (Joan Didion)

Hamlet's world has been shaken: his father is dead. Hamlet wavers along the boundaries of his reality, which he suddenly shares with ghosts. What play would he have to put on in order to grasp his grief and not let his own play end in a great bloodbath?
In a cautious movement, a performer approaches the figure of Hamlet, the speechlessness, the attributions, the anger and the grief that lies beneath it all. How can we confront loss and translate it into our present? How can we create a space of shared mourning and witnessing in the theater? An approach to a time of loss and the attempt to reassemble ourselves in it.

"We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy (...)" (Joan Didion)

Hamlet's world is out of joint: his father is dead. Hamlet wavers along the boundaries of his reality, which he is suddenly sharing with ghosts. What play would he have to put on in order to grasp his grief and not let his own play end in a great bloodbath?
In a cautious move, a performer approaches the figure of Hamlet, the speechlessness, the attributions, the anger and the grief that lies beneath it all. How can we confront our losses and translate them into the present? How can we create a space of shared mourning and testimony in theater? An approach to a time of loss and the attempt to reassemble ourselves in it.

With: Max Kurth
Director: Ilario Raschèr
Set: Luca Punke
Dramaturgy: Marie Fuchs

St. Pauli Theater
In cooperation with the Theaterakademie Hamburg, Hochschule für Musik und Theater
Supported by: ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

The premiere took place as part of the Kiezstürmer Festival 2024 at the St. Pauli Theater

UWE:festival 2025 | Uwe

Price information:

8 € / reduced € 4 (25% discount on the full price for bookings of five or more performances)