Hamlet
"Hamlet" talks about the collapse of the world, where the title Hamlet goes against the entire nation.
By The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
William Szekspir / Stanisław Wyspiański
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Stanisław Wyspiański, Bartosz SzydłowskiThe Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
Director Bartosz Szydłowski reaches for Hamlet and delivers Shakespeare's most famous drama through the world of Stanisław Wyspiański's ideas contained in his Study and in Liberation.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Stanisław Wyspiański, Bartosz SzydłowskiThe Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
Wyspiański died of a small-minded, egocentric Poland, enchanted in the slogans of nationality.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Stanisław Wyspiański, Bartosz SzydłowskiThe Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
He reached for Hamlet because he saw in it the struggle of the Polish intelligentsia member who was facing the world of a lies, triumphant cackle, and grotesque, which was transformed from an aesthetic category to a category describing the real world.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Stanisław Wyspiański, Bartosz SzydłowskiThe Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
The contemporary Polish Hamlet is a Hamlet of the post-truth times. The last loner of decency.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Stanisław Wyspiański, Bartosz SzydłowskiThe Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow
‘Play Hamlet wherever you want in Poland. Your words: deceit, theft, insolence, shall mean insolence, deceit and harm everywhere! And call for revenge!’
Concept and implementation: Anna Brajner-Guzik
Photographs: Bartek Barczyk
