Hamlet

Toneelhuis, Kuiperskaai, Lisaboa Houbrechts

2018 - 2020

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Lisaboa Houbrechts & Kuiperskaai make theatre full of vitality and fantasy, as witnessed by their sparkling version of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (2016) and the daring 1095 (2017). Director Lisaboa Houbrechts evokes history in the form of a ritual deed, revealing human nature as a series of passionate urges by presenting historical stories and classical repertoire.

Now Lisaboa Houbrechts is tackling Hamlet. Approaching the play from the female perspective, she focuses on the destructive relation between Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, his mother. Houbrechts points up Gertrude’s innocence, and in doing so positions her at the heart of the company’s repertoire.

Lisaboa Houbrechts has asked the actress Grace Ellen Barkey to play the role of the militant Gertrude. Appearing together with her son Victor Lauwers as prince Hamlet, and her daughter Romy Louise Lauwers in the role of Ophelia, this is the first time that Grace Ellen will be seen in a Kuiperskaai production.

 

Credits

script based on

William Shakespeare
 

direction, adaptation

Lisaboa Houbrechts

 

translation

Victor Lauwers

with

Grace Ellen Barkey

Victor Lauwers

Romy Louise Lauwers

Lobke Leirens

Seppe Decubber

Maxime Rouquart

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assistance of the director

Pauwel Hertmans

 

scenography

Oscar van der Put

 

costume design

Sietske Van Aerde

 

music

Maxime Rouquart

 

light design

Ken Hioco

Oscar van der Put

 

cello

Simon Lenski

piano

Claire Chevallier

 

violin

Wietse Beels

 

trainee assistant to the director

Kyra Verreydt

 

production

P.U.L.S. - Project for Upcoming Artists for the Large Stage

Toneelhuis

Kuiperskaai

 

coproduction

Needcompany

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main

 

contrabas

Kristof Roseeuw

 

with the support of

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