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William Shakespeare

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PREVIEW

What a set design can do to ‘Hamlet’

Ersan Mondtag directs and designs the set at the Berliner Ensemble for a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ with Wilke Weermann. What can a stage space change about a classic — and what must the performance itself achieve?

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Whose present speaks through ‘Hamlet’?

Shakespeare meets Wilke Weermann: Ersan Mondtag’s ‘Hamlet’ premieres at the Berliner Ensemble on 5 November. The announced adaptation asks whether the desire to repair a damaged world itself breeds violence.

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