“Please, Continue (Hamlet)”
at Kaserne Basel 20./21./22.1.2015
and at Berliner Festspiele/ Foreign Affairs 30.6.+1.7. 2014 19.00
directors: Yan Duyvendak & Roger Bernat, Geneva/Marseille/Barcelona
Hamlet MAXIMILIAN BRAUER
Ophelia ANA BERKENHOFF
Gertrude MONICA BUDDE
Chief judge DR KAY-THOMAS DIECKMANN (30 Jun) /
DR CARSTEN KESSEL (01 Jul)
Assessors CORINNA VOLKMER and DR. ANDREAS LACH (30 Jun) /
MARIELUIS BRINKMANN and BO MEYER (01 Jul)
Prosecutor RUTH UHLENBRUCK (30 Jun) /
MARCUS OSWALD (01 Jul)
Lawyer of the defendant (Hamlet) NIKLAS DITTBERNER (30 Jun) /SVEN PEITZNER (01 Jul)
Advocatress of the joint plaintiff (Ophelia) JUDITH CIGANOVIC(30 Jun) / MICHAELA MUMM-VON OLDENBURG (01 Jul)
Psychiatric expert witness DR MED FRANK WENDT
Concept YAN DUYVENDAK & ROGER BERNAT
Stage in collaboration with SYLVIE KLEIBER
Production management NATALY SUGNAUX HERNANDEZ
Administration CATHERINE CUANY
Communication ANA-BELEN TORREBLANCA
Technics GAËL GRIVET
In courts of law, the voice of the people often seems to fail. Maybe this is one of the reasons why in “Please, Continue (Hamlet)” by Swiss performer Yan Duyvendak and Catalan director Roger Bernat, the court moves out into the theatre. All protagonists are professionals who have left their usual domains in order to participate in a show in which the audience gets a vote. A real case is being tried that has classic traits: Hamlet today. There is a judge, a prosecutor, an attorney – all of them real legal practitioners. The defendants and witnesses, Hamlet, his mother Gertrude and Ophelia are represented by actors. And of course there is the audience whose power of judgment is of vital importance and will contribute to the outcome of every individual performance. In the theatre space it becomes clear that the outcome of a trial may very well depend on the rhetorical abilities of the parties involved. And it also becomes apparent that the law, which here is turned into art and literature, is pliant indeed: Hamlet – like you have never seen it before.