Hamlet Free

After William Shakespeare

Direction and set design: Mc Ranin

Translation and adaptation by Elena Belciu (Romanian, English), Marie Shim (Korean)
Sound: Cătălin Crețu
Jewelry and costume jewelry: Victoria Ghirvu
Stage wrestling: Claudiu Trandafir

Project manager: Liviu Cheloiu

Producer: Tony Bulandra Theater Targoviste, Romania
Co-producer: Nameless Theater Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Co-producer: Daejeon Theater Association, South Korea

The performance HAMLET LIBER is co-funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute, through the CANTEMIR Program – a funding program for cultural projects for the international environment. The Romanian Cultural Institute is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.

ICR – Programul CANTEMIR // Spectacolul Hamlet Liber – o inițiativă artistică pe scenele a trei țări

CAST:

Claudius / Hamlet the Father – Liviu Cheloiu (Romania)

Gertrude – Marie Shim (South Korea)

Hamlet – Hyeongdong Lee (South Korea)

Ofelia – Andreea Stanciu (Romania)

Horatio / Baptista – Sasa Jeong (South Korea)

Polonius / The Gravedigger– Ion Munteanu (Republic of Moldova)

Laertes / Gozango – Hyeonggun Kim (South Korea)

Rosencrantz/ Guildenstern – Valentin Munteanu (Republic of Moldova)

About

Premiere: September 30, 2024, Teatrul Fără Nume (IP CCA “Ginta Latină”)
Duration: 2h 15min.

12+ Rated

`Free Hamlet`, under the visionary direction of Mc Ranin, who also signs the scenography of the show, is not a simple reenactment of the most famous play in the world, it is an uncomfortable, hyper-intimate invitation to the most overwhelming feelings, to the most spoken and, especially, unspoken articulated intimacies: doubt, revenge, plot, power, innocence, strength, love, honor, justice… hope – all so old, human and volatile, here brought to algorithm, precision and technology… for the initiated.

Different cultures, contrary principles, conflicting generations, languages not only in varied dialects, but in non-alphabetic alphabets – this is how the universe of a free Hamlet is conjugated. Romanian, Moldovan and Korean actors bring these fundamental themes to the audience, each in their own language and dialect, in a lively, dynamic, surprising production in which the boundary between classic and contemporary disappears in the universality of dramatic art, demonstrating that human emotions, conflicts and aspirations transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries.

The actors play, live and map the destinies of these iconic characters in the souls of the few who are allowed the intimacy of this tragedy.