Elsinore

Synopsis: A videorecording of Robert Lepage’s one-man version of Hamlet. The play is performed with a computer-controlled multimedia machine made up of modular flats that can be either performed or projected upon.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 10 Oct 1997
Duration: 92 mins

Director

Robert Lepage

Music

Robert Caux

Production Design

Carl Fillion

Costume

Yvan Gaudin

Cast

Robert Lepage	Hamlet
Pierre Bernier	Hamlet’s Double

Theatre: Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Theatre company: Ex Machina
Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: Hamlet
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); One-Person shows; Multimedia productions
Related items: Music of the ‘Speare

Notes: Robert Lepage in conversation with Richard Eyre, a transcript of a Platform Performance, 10 January 1997, Lyttelton Theatre can be read by visiting http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=2627. The interview was conducted when Elsinore was performed at the National Theatre, London. The text of the play can be downloaded from www.canadianshakespeares.ca
History: The play was first performed in Toronto April 1996; an earlier French language production was staged in Montreal, November 1995.
Reviews: Steen, Shannon & Werry, Margaret. ‘Bodies, Technologies, and Subjectivities: The Production of Authority in Robert Lepage’s Elsinore’ in
Essays in Theatre/Etudes théâtrales 16 (1998-99), pp 139-51. Analyses the critical reception of Elsinore.