HAMLET

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

Adapted & Directed by Javor Gardev
Bulgarian Verse Translation by Alexander Shurbanov
Set & Costume Design by Daniela Oleg Liahova &
Nikola Toromanov & Venelin Shurelov
Choreography by Violeta Vitanova & Stanislav Genadiev
Fight Choreography by Emil Videv
Original Score by Kalin Nikolov
Consultant on Shakespearian Verse – Sava Dragunchev, Jr.

Cast
Leonid Jovchev, Marius Kurkinski, Elena Telbis, Svetlana Yancheva, Valentin Ganev, Hristo Petkov, Vesela Babinova, Ivan Yurukov, Ovanes Torosian, Pavlin Petrunov, Alexander Uzunov, Zaphyr Radjab, Petko Venelinov, Daniel Peev, Deyan Angelov, Darin Angelov, Gergana Arnaudova, Josif Shamli, Sava Dragunchev, Jr., Victor Tanev, Stanislav Genadiev, Philip Milanov, Violeta Vitanova, Elena Gospodinova, Kire Giorevski, Emil I. Markov, Plamen Peev, Theodor Elmazov, Kalin Javorov

“At the point you perceive the irreparability of the world;
at that point it is transcendent.”
Giorgio Agamben, “The Coming Community”

Javor Gardev: This rendition of “Hamlet” focuses neither on the specific nature of melancholia, nor on the loss of meaning, but on that very moment, in which one discovers “the irreparability of the world”. The single transitory instant after which, one can no longer be oneself in a world that has just collapsed before their very eyes. Many of us at some point in our lives have felt the pain and suffering associated with the loss of meaning, but very few have emerged from this loss to find themselves born in a world of new meaning. Could the moment of desperation become the point of salvation? Could this moment be the gateway to the very substance of being? Is there a way to set an irreparable world right? Hamlet’s journey is one not of desperation, but of a search for salvation.

Produced by The National Theatre of Bulgaria, 2012

 

Performance Photos by Simon Varsano

Rehearsal Photos by Kalin Nikolov