Space Hamlet

(Febr. 2009- Dec. 2010)

Space Hamlet is a performance’s test, an open rehearsal. After last December’s events in Athens, which followed the murder of a 15 year old boy by a policeman in the centre of the city, we began to realise in a diferrent and accurate way what Hamlet means by saying: “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable/ seem to me all the uses of this world!”

We decided to combine the body of the city with the body of Hamlet, both injured and protesting, seeking persistantly for something. We started looking for our material in what we call ‘city gaps’, doing there most of our rehearsals: in the streets of the conflicts, during protesting marches, in public squares, buses, near an ancient river, among people in their everyday routes. Our first testings/performances took place in a theatre but soon we got out in the center of the city, in the few left open/public spaces were things took place. Space Hamlet is a performance constructed with/by the audience and the city.

What is a public space? What does the murder of a young child in a public space from a public servant mean? What does public mean? What does Hamlet mean? These are our questions, and the answers are to be found, of course. We need open public spaces, we need common rythms, we need to do all this in common with the audience. We need more questions. Space Hamlet is nothing more but a public space testing in Athens 2009.

Try with us.

Conception-Direction

Ioanna Remediaki

Text

Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene 2 (transl. by G. Heimonas)

Texts from the actors, newspapers and the city

With

Hara Karatziou

Argiro Logara

Ioanna Remediaki

Angelos Hatzas