“Hamlet is a spider's web, it center is Elsinore, an alien environment, far from the civilized world, to the which the Prince is desperately trying to give meaning. William Shakespeare molds his work doubting the purpose of revenge. What can vengeance mean when the authority of Hamlet/the Ghost ceases to hold?” the artists ask. Krzysztof Garbaczewski brilliantly reconciles the oppositions: a faith in the text and its rejection, faith in drama and a conviction of its anachronism, the virtuosic director and the anarchic stage.
‘Hamlet’ directed by Krzysztof Garbaczewski at the National Stary Theatre is part of the Shakespeare Lives programme.