How Not To Be Hamlet?
(a work-in-development)
Something is rotten in the state of New Zealand. But we don’t quite know what it is or what to do about it, or if we can do anything at all. We have lost our identity and lost control of our destiny. The only way left to act is as a puppet or a clown – like Hamlet. Someone once said “people don’t want much, just someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for” – this now sounds like the voice of a ghost from a different place and a different time. But maybe this voice, the voice of Norman Kirk, will urge us to act again. For Hamlet, to be or not to be means to accept the world the way it is or to kill himself. We ask ourselves how not to be Hamlet. How to “act”?
This is planned as a theatrical “mouse-trap” for audiences with audio-visual media, live music, puppets and political parody. The company will present a series of Ubu Nights that experiment with different materials towards a performance season of a new work. A blog post about the project. |