SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Ophelia und die Woerter Ophelia and the Words

Synopsis

Radio play based on Ophelia’s text in Shakespeare’s Hamlet written by Austrian playwright Gerhard Rühm. The radio play deconstructs the role of Ophelia by extracting all the key nouns and verbs from her speeches. This spiralling chain of words and sounds surround and enclose the character of Ophelia who loses her linguistic grip on the world.

Language

German (Standard)

Country

Germany

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

8 May 1969 (Channel: WDR 3)

Duration

19 mins

Credits

Director

Klaus Schöning

Writer

Gerhard Rühm; William Shakespeare

Adaptor for Radio

Klaus Schöning

Cast

Giselheid Hoensch

Ophelia

Additional Details

Production type

Television and Radio Drama

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Related items

Ophelia and the Words

Notes

Notes

For a recording copy (private use only) contact the WDR Mitschnittservice (recording service), using the online form provided at http://www.wdr.de/unternehmen/service/mitschnitt.jhtml (accessed 3/7/2007)

History

Originally produced and transmitted by the WDR Studio Akustische Kunst (acoustic art) in Germany in 1969, a stage version of OPHELIA UND DIE WOERTER was performed by the Forum-Theatre in Berlin during the ‘Experimenta’ in Frankfurt the same year.

Production Company

Name

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor (Sale)

Name

WDR Mitschnittservice

Web

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Fax

++49 (0)221 220 8041

Address

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Germany