Kent Olofsson - Composer
Hamlet II: Exit Ghost
Ensemble: 2 actors, live electronics (2 computers, MIDI keyboard and controllers, 4-channel sound system), live and pre-recorded video projections, 2 cameramen, light operator.
For Hamlet II: Exit Ghost, the director turns a theatre stage into a TV studio, a laboratory in which the actors take apart Shakespeare's words and characters. Dahlqvist is staging a play within a play. The confusion he maintains between the roles of Hamlet and Polonius and Ophelia and Gertrude exacerbates the madness, doubt and despair overwhelming them. The two actors battle with the play, masterfully navigating between its narrative line and a psychoanalytical interpretation of its mythical protagonists. These are made dramatically familiar thanks to the claustrophobic set and images filmed live. A meditation on identity, the weight of the past and death, Hamlet II: Exit Ghost is evocative of Scandinavian film and television series as much as the legendary productions of this classic among classics. Shakespeare meets Bergman meets The Killing! (Hillaert 2012)
Text & video:Jörgen Dahlqvist |Music & Live-electronics:Kent Olofsson |Actors:Linda Ritzén, Rafael Pettersson |Light Design:Johan Bergman |Technician & Camera operator:Johan Nordström |Camera:Nils Dernevik |Working period:August – November 2010 |Premiere:Inter Arts Center, Malmö, November 14 2010
Performances:
Inter Arts Center, Malmö, November 17-20, 2010
Inkonst 17-18, Malmö, March 25-27, 2011
Volksbühne, Berlin, November 30 - December 1, 2011
Dramaten Elverket, Stockholm, December 10–11, 2011
Kunstendesfestivaldesartes, Brussels, May 7-10, 2012
Göteborg Dans och Teaterfestival, Atalante, Gothenburg, May 19, 2012
Festival Temps d’images, Paris, October 20-21, 2012
Örebro Länsteater, Örebro, April 23-24, 2013
