Onassis
What’s OnHommage to Shakespeare
Part of: Hommage to Shakespeare

Hamlet

Boris Nikitin

Dates

Prices

5 — 20 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday-Sunday
Time
19:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

Full price: 20 €
Reduced, Friend & Small groups (5-9 people): 16 €
Large groups (10+ people): 14 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 10 €

Duration

90 minutes

"Hamlet" is a poetic revolt: raw, confronting, iridiscent, antisocial. A subversive and riveting performance from the young and unconventional Boris Nikitin.

The new work by the Swiss-french-ukrainian director Boris Nikitin that has moved strongly the audiences at the premiere in Switzerland two months ago, is presented at the Onassis Stegi as part of the hommage to the great Elizabethan dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his death.

In a performance between queer and punk, the dazzling performer and electro musician Julian Meding is crossfading his own biography with the one of a contemporary Hamlet, protesting against reality. Nikitin’s and Meding's “Hamlet” is not retelling the story of Shakespeares play but it is using it as a frame to rethink identity, individuality, illness and reality. Τhey transform Shakespeare’s most popular work, in an electro-pop performance that plays games with our gaze, our imagination and our desire.

Photo: Donata Ettlin

Parallel Event

Saturday 17 December

A discussion with the participants will follow after the performance “By Heart”
Moderated by Savas Patsalidis, Τheater critic and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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“With Nikitin’s "Hamlet" the discussion about reality and realness in contemporary theatre takes a new step”
– Theater der Zeit

“It’s an evening that holds us because it makes us oscillate. Like very few others Boris Nikitin pushes contemporary theatre to a critical point”
–Theater heute

Credits

  • Concept, Director, Text

    Boris Nikitin

  • Performance, Text

    Julian Meding

  • Songs

    Uzrukki Schmidt

  • Video

    Elvira Isenring

  • Production Management

    Annett Hardegen

  • Author rights

    schaefersphilippen, Colone

  • Translation

    Lenia Zafiropoulou

  • A production by

    Boris Nikitin

  • The performance is co-commissioned by

    Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zürich, Theatre Vidy Lausanne, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr

  • Supported by

    Münchner Kammerspiele, HAU-Hebbel am Ufer Berlin

Sponsoring / partnerships

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