Please, Continue (Hamlet)
Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat
What’s your verdict? Does a court’s decision depend on the judge’s mood? On the lawyers’ performance? Who is on the jury? How does your personal conviction take shape in the theatre of the courtroom? Real-life legal professionals are recruited locally to play for real in Hamlet’s mock trial. Shakespeare’s hero, revisited, stands accused of murdering Polonius. Eye-witness statements, pleas and counterpleas, expert witnesses – Please, Continue (Hamlet) brings the spectacle of the legal system to the stage to create a courtroom drama that explores the eternally elusive question of what is truth.
Nataly Sugnaux Hernandez, production/management • nataly.sugnaux@duyvendak.com
www.duyvendak.com
Production: Dreams Come True, Geneva
Co-production: Le Phénix, National Theater of Valenciennes • Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht • Théâtre du GRÜ, Geneva
Residencies: Montévidéo, Marseille • Le Carré/Les Colonnes, subsidised theater, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles/Blanquefort
Supported by: City of Geneva • Republic and Canton of Geneva • Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture • Migros pour-cent culturel • Loterie Romande • Ministerio de Cultura-INAEM • CORODIS • Le Nouveau théâtre de Montreuil - National Drama Center
Concept: Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat
With: Monica Budde ou Véronique Alain, Hélène Hudovernik ou Claire Delaporte, Manuel Vallade ou Thierry Raynaud et des professionnels de la Cour locale
Scenography: in collaboration with Sylvie Kleiber
Technics: Gaël Grivet
*Show for the francophone audience scheduled as part of the Hybrides Festival
