Odin Teatret brings Hamlets skyer to Teatret Svalegangen in Aarhus, a piece that plays with Shakespeare's story and his own grief: Hamnet, the son who died at eleven, and Hamlet, the prince who inherits both love and violence. A father returns as a ghost, a son faces his legacy, and old wrongs reach into the present.
The performance moves freely between times and spaces, combining ritual, physical theatre and poetry. Children and adults live through war, conflict and loss, but also through moments of beauty and human vulnerability. It is part of the festival Bridges, not walls, celebrating the 90th birthday of theorist and director Eugenio Barba, who founded Odin Teatret. The production is dedicated to young people without a future and to those we have lost.
The cast includes Else Marie Laukvik, Julia Varley, Ulrik Skeel, Rina Skeel, Antonia Cioaza and Jakob Nielsen. Eugenio Barba directs.
