Being and non-being at the same time. Boris Nikitin's production of Hamlet is not a retelling of Shakespeare's material. Rather, the Swiss director creates his own theatrical vision about identity, illness and reality in a mixture of performance and queer musical theatre. At the centre is the performer and electric musician Julian Meding, who, as a demanding, vulnerable Hamlet figure, exposes himself, his body and his biography, to the gaze of the audience. He is accompanied, elevated and countered by the award-winning baroque ensemble The Musical Garden. Can the theatre be a place of solidarity? Meding's wrestling with reality brings the framework of the play itself into focus, turning "Hamlet" into a poetic revolt - raw, coarse-grained, confrontational, antisocial, dazzling.
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