This radical
re-working of Shakespeare's masterpiece deconstructs
the play into elemental scenes, excluding everything
unknown to Hamlet, and reconstructs it as a fractured
interior monologue, in which the dying prince watches
his whole life pass before him in his final minutes.
Hamlet struggles to remember and understand his life
and death, and the pain and suffering he inflicted upon
others.
On the edge of time, a twilight space where one is
gazing from this world into the next, there is no "plot"
per se, just fragments of memory bubbling up
to be obsessively replayed as in a fevered dream.
By setting the play in a limbo-like dream space where
it is possible to jump around in time, the production
is granted an interpretive latitude that is unavailable
to conventional Hamlets.
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