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Alternative title: Hamlet
Synopsis: Video of a stage performance. A co-production between FACE to FACE (Denmark) and TheatreWorks (Singapore). The performance, which centres around an absent Hamlet, was created via a workshop process. The work began with a week’s workshop in Singapore in December 2001 and was followed by another week-long workshop in Elsinore in April 2002. The rehearsal process began in July 2002 in Denmark. In the workshops, the artists developed their characters by using their individual disciplines and specific cultural backgrounds. Each participant enters a dialogue that develops and interprets the contemporary search for Hamlet in their cultures and
communities today.
Language: Chinese (Singapore)
Country: Denmark
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: Sep 2002
Duration: 217 mins

Director

Ong Keng Sen

Music

Dicte

Production Design

Justin Hill

Costume

Koji Hamai

Cast

Theatre: Betty Nansen Theatre, Edison, Copenhagen
Theatre company: TheatreWorks
Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: Hamlet
Subjects: Dance; Drama; Music
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting; Doubling of roles; Multimedia productions

Notes: The production may be viewed at: http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/collections/catalogue2.html (accessed 8/2010),

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