Hamlet

Synopsis: A televised version of Stemann’s acclaimed stage play. The production uses music from different periods and combines film and video with live performance. Stemann cut the text severely, and reduced the cast to the play’s seven principal figures who populate Katrin Nottrodt’s completely walled-in, steeply raked stage. The space contained two video monitors, with another up above the audience. The monitors remained on throughout the production, broadcasting video clipsparticularly scenes from Olivier’s HAMLETlive feeds of onstage action from a camcorder operated mostly by Hamlet, and, in between, static.
Language: German (Standard)
Country: Germany
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 25 Feb 2002 (Channel: 3Sat)
Duration: 120 mins

Director

Nicholas Stemann

Music

Sebastian Vogel; Thomas Kürstner

Production Design

Katrin Nottrodt

Costume

Esther Bialas

Contributor

Frank-Patrick Steckel

Cast

General: The production portrays a media prince who loses himself as Hamlet between media pictures that surround him and a court that views guilt casually and with merriment.
History: First staged at the Schauspeil in Hannover beginning 17 February 2001. Transmitted on Theaterkanal on 5 October 2002.
Textual information: Translated into German by Frank-Patrick Steckel. Dramaturg is Matthias Pees.
Reviews: Rouse, John Western European Stages 14, no. 3 (2002): pp. 5-24 (esp. pp. 18-20). [Review of stage production].

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