Croatian House of Culture in Sušak - 6.5. at 20:00 h
Zagreb Youth Theatre
Shakespeare: HAMLET
Director: Oliver Frljić
Set design: Petra Veber
Costume design: Sandra Dekanić
Music selection: Oliver Frljić
Light design: Aleksandar Čavlek
Cast: Krešimir Mikić, Sreten Mokrović, Nina Violić, Pjer Meničanin, Jasmin Telalović, Goran Bogdan, Vedran Živolić i Petar Leventić te Milivoj Beader.
"My Hamlet is an abstract analysis of the usurpation of power, in which the group in power finally kills Hamlet. It's not a drama in which Hamlet gradually learns about how corrupted and rotten the society and the system are: he knows that from the very beginning. It's not him who sets a mousetrap, but a mousetrap is set for him..."
Oliver Frljić
Are we reading Hamlet on stage or are we adding our own thoughts to the text? Maybe he is part of our lives, and we play that life on stage with Hamlet, or around Hamlet, trying not to betray ourselves or the reality we are talking about. If we are reading that reality from a story of a Danish prince, a victim of historical circumstances, doomed to be defeated even before he has started the battle, unprepared to escape from the destiny shaped by the courtiers' conspiracy, that story will seem so familiar to us, that we shall, one more time, dare call Shakespeare our contemporary.
Dubravka Vrgoč, from the booklet