HAML3T

Brought to you by the SSAF

Presented by Melbourne University Shakespeare Company (MUSC)

Part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

I am walking amongst the dead, and they love me for I am one of them.

King Hamlet is dead. Claudius is king. Hamlet is for the first time meeting themselves, like a reflection in the undercurrent of a river. There's a red light in the forest, voices on the wind, the taste of a narrative decaying. You are here at the end of all things. The sun is setting. The river is swelling. This story won't die.

Horatio is desperate for a happier ending, and when they find themselves in a strange, stitched-together timeline with three bickering Hamlets, they think they might have an opportunity to rewrite their world into something softer. Tragedy, however, has a power of its own, and if there's any story that knows how to survive, it's a Shakespeare.

Exploring the legacies of love, violence, and storytelling, this new work from a group of emerging student artists opens up radical new possibilities in the realm of adapting Shakespeare. Multi-disciplinary and experimental, this is a production unafraid to look you in the eye and ask: why are you still sitting there, when you already know they're all going to die?

When

Tues 18 Oct at 6:30pm
Wed 19 Oct at 6:30pm
Thurs 20 Oct at 6:30pm
Fri 21 Oct at 6:30pm
Sat 22 Oct at 6:30pm

Venue

Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre

Bookings

https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/haml3t/

This production was devised on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People, and will be performed on the unceded lands of the Yalukit Willam Clan of the Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation.