20 October | 20:00
“I. L. Caragiale” National Theatre, Sala Mare (Big Hall)
This is the first Russian production by the legendary Canadian stage director Robert Lepage. The creation of the performance took more than two years and resulted into a hi-tech action designed for only one actor and almost two dozens of backstage staff, including stage technicians, stage managers, electricians, props people, sound and video engineers.
INFORMAȚII
Confined inside a cube hovering above the stage, Hamlet has to incarnate all characters of Shakespeare’s play, one by one; in the course of action he stabs, poisons and drowns himself. In fact all the events of the play take place inside Hamlet’s own imagination, and Hamlet is first revealed to the audience sitting in his room in a mental asylum. Robert Lepage and Evgeny Mironov managed to create a large-scale tragedy of the mind, which turned out to be even more intimidating than the tragedy of real life.
“Hamlet’s main problem is that he thinks too much. He doesn’t find a solution to a task. He is a character who always uses his brain. All in all, a skull serves as a powerful symbol of the theatre and Hamlet. That’s why Shakespeare devised a big scene with a skull, which – after all – is a human’s head. I surely don’t have answers to my numerous questions. That’s why it was interesting to stage a play with a single actor, with the actor’s head.” (Robert Lepage)
Translated by: Mikhail Lozinsky, Boris Pasternak
Adapted by: Robert Lepage
Characters (in order of appearance): Actor, Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Horatio, Ophelia, Laertes, Ghost, Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric
Performed by: Evgeny Mironov
With participation of: Vladimir Malyugin
Directed by: Robert Lepage
Set Design: Carl Fillion
Costumes: François St-Aubin
Sound Environment and Music: Josuė Beaucage
Video: Lionel Arnould
Additional music: As Tears Go By interpreted by Marianne Faithfull
Additional images: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Milky Way
Additional images from the movies: Le Temps des Bouffons by Pierre Falardeau,
Hamlet by Grigory Kozintcev
PROJECT TEAM:
Canada
Set: Carl Fillion
Properties: Claudia Gendreau
Sound Environment and Music: Josue Beaucage
Lighting: Robert Lepage assisted by Bruno Matte
Costumes: François St-Aubin
Images: Lionel Arnould
Assistant Director: Catherine Dorion and Adele Saint-Amand
Director’s Agent: Lynda Beaulieu
Production Director: Julie-Marie Bourgeois and Vanessa Landry-Claverie
Technical Director (creation): Michel Gosselin
Stage Manager (creation): Adèle Saint-Amand
Video Manager (creation): Thomas Payette
Costumes Manager (creation): Eveline Tanguay
Head Stagehand (creation): Pierre Gagné
Consultant Tehnician: Tobie Horswill
Video Consultant: Catherine Guay
Wigs: Richard Hansen
Producer for Ex Machina: Michel Bernatchez
Russia
Project dramatist: Roman Dolzhansky
Assistant and Interpreter to Evgeny Mironov: Gurgen Tsaturyan
Stage Managers: Anastasia Galitsyna, Evgeniya Antonyuk
Stage Movement Consultants: Vladimir Malyugin, Leonid Timtsunik
Scenic Speech Consultant: Avangard Leontyev
Technical Production Directors: Andrey Yalovich, Yuri Gnutov, Yuri Romanov
Stage Hands: Valery Gvozdev, Stepan Levankov, Maxim Bolotyko,
Dmitry Nechepurenko, Leonid Kravtsov, Vladislav Nifontov, Dmitry Beliaev
Technicians: Evgeny Kobzev, Anton Ermolenko, Evgeny Motin
Lighting: Anna Tretyakova, Alexey Frolov, Alexander Matveev, Vladimir Ryabov
Sound: Pavel Mikhaylov, Andrey Borisov
Video: Konstantin Dmitriev, Ivan Novikov
Costumes: Elena Kulikova
Make-up: Anna Nikulina
Properties: Yulia Martynenko, Svetlana Grushnikova, Nadezhda Saltykova
International Tours: Ivan Samokhin
Duration: 2 h 10 min (no intermission)
Theatre of Nations, Moscow, Russia
