Oskaras Koršunovas:

“We’re in acute need of self-analysis, in order to understand our environment and the decisions we make about living. We may even need to nurture a certain ‘paranoia’ in ourselves, in order to protect ourselves from making fundamental errors in understanding the world. We need to overcome the calm the surrounds us, we need to learn and relearn that it’s an illusion.
That’s why Hamlet is the most topical play for our times. The Hamlet question seems absurd to us at first. Our existence is so comfortable, and the future seems almost guaranteed. But actually the future is to be found inside each of us, and not in political slogans or commercial advertising. We need to tear the veil that hides life from us, we need to rip up our supposedly safe existence. Security can be very dangerous.”

Set designer
Oskaras Koršunovas, Agnė Kuzmickaitė

Costume designer
Agnė Kuzmickaitė

Composer
Antanas Jasenka

Lighting designer
Eugenijus Sabaliauskas

Sound designer
Vilius Vilutis

Cast
BERNARDO, ROSENCRANTZ, GRAVEDIGGER - Tomas Žaibus
HORATIO, NORWEGIAN CAPTAIN, FORTINBRAS - Julius Žalakevičius
KING CLAUDIUS, GHOST - Dainius Gavenonis
LAERTES - Darius Gumauskas
GUILDENSTERN, GRAVEDIGGER - Giedrius Savickas
MARCELLUS, GENTLEMAN - Jonas Verseckas
OPHELIA - Rasa Samuolytė
POLONIUS - Vaidotas Martinaitis
PRINCE HAMLET - Darius Meškauskas
QUEEN GERTRUDE - Nelė Savičenko

Premiere
2008 November 20

Reviews
Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė
Anette Therese Pettersen
Stein Roger Fossmo
Elisiv Hauge Nilsen
Lillian Bikset
Audronis Liuga / 7 meno dienos
Lukasz Drewniak / 7 meno dienos
Pavel Rudnev / Častnij Korespondent
Dorota Ziemkowska / Festiwal „Dialog“. Gazeta festiwalowa
Marina Davydova / Izvestija
Sarah Elghazi / Les Trois Coups
Kalina Stefanova, Ph.D. / LIK (monthly magazine)