Testing the Audience’s Judgement: Please, Continue (Hamlet) by Roger Bernat and Yan Duyvendak

• Autores: David Rodríguez Solás
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 251-266
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since it opened in 2011, Roger Bernat and Yan Duyvendak’s Please, Continue (Hamlet) has immersed audiences in a murder trial, performed in courtrooms or on stage, and given them the thorny task of judging another person. The audience is informed that “Hamlet” is the pseudonym of the defendant, whose real name will not be disclosed. Hamlet is accused of killing Polonius, father to Ophelia; she is Hamlet’s girlfriend and will be giving testimony against him. Hamlet’s mother, Gertrud, is the only witness. Hamlet himself is a young man living in the suburbs of Chicago, Marseille, Geneva, Madrid, or any of...