"This is me very briefly. Today is the worst day of my life. I feel empty today. It's not me today... It's Hamlet for me today. And I, by the way, I..am."
To be, or not to be? And if to be - how? The play raises the same Hamlet questions, but looks at V. Shakespeare's famous play through the eyes of a young person. How to be if you are confused, betrayed, if you have lost trust in the dearest people?
For more than 400 years, "Hamlet" has been staged all over the world and is no longer just a literary and theatrical canon. Hamlet is also a certain way of perceiving the world, a mood, a spiritual state familiar to many of us. In this play, Hamlet is a teenager - rebellious, irreconcilable, doubting himself and others, misunderstood, disappointed, but deep in his heart he longs for peace with himself and the world. Is dialogue, communication between different generations, and respect for different values still possible in our "confused world"?
In the performance, you can easily trace the main plot lines, themes, and characters of the play "Hamlet", but the original text of V. Shakespeare is imperceptibly intertwined with the inclusions of modern language and behavior patterns. The director Ieva Stundžytė freely interprets, rearranges, supplements the play with today's contexts and means of expression - music, movement, choreography are very important in the performance. The creators bravely take on the task of conveying the complex existential questions raised in the play in an understandable way and at the same time revealing in a non-trivial way what is relevant for young people today in the inexhaustible undertones of "Hamlet".
How can I be if today is Hamlet for me? The play does not leave its doubting hero alone in a maze of unsolvable dilemmas and offers hope that searching for answers together is as important as finding them.
