Odin Teatret brings HAMLETS SKYER to Teatret Svalegangen in Aarhus, a performance that reworks Shakespeare's story of loss and inheritance. It draws on the death of Hamnet, Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, and on Hamlet, the prince who inherits both love and violence, asking what we pass on to the next generation and what we carry with us.
The piece moves freely between times and spaces, with scenes in which children and adults live through war, conflict and grief, alongside moments of beauty and human vulnerability. Through ritual, physical theatre and poetry, past and present blend together, and the production explores how violence, love and loss travel through generations. It is part of the series Bridges, not walls, a celebration of Eugenio Barba's 90th birthday, and is staged in collaboration with Aarhus University.
The cast includes Else Marie Laukvik, Julia Varley, Ulrik Skeel, Rina Skeel, Antonia Cioaza and Jakob Nielsen.
