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Isabel Abreu (Ophelie)
Tom Adjibi (Guildenstern)
Servane Ducorps (Gertrude)
Clotilde Hesme (Hamlet)
David Houri (Rosencrantz)
Tonan Quito (Polonius)
Matthieu Sampeur (Claudius)

Christiane Jatahy is known for her radical adaptations of classic works through her unique, signature prism, which combines theatre and cinema. This time, the Brazilian director enters into Hamlet’s head. Shakespeare’s most famous hero crosses four centuries to arrives in today’s world, in which the fight against the patriarchal violence of the system put in place by Claudius, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is led by a female character. In Christian Jatahy’s show, young Hamlet has become a mature woman — just as troubled as Hamlet was by past faults, aspiring just as much as he to change the future. Simultaneously, Gertrude (her mother) and Ophélie (her fiancée) share her private life, egg her on to confront the past and to relive the story — and to change theirs at the same time. Like in a documentary, the camera is at once a tool for the quest for truth and a defensive weapon: which resources should be used to go into action and overthrow the tyrant? Shakespeare’s tragedy meets the question that underlies all of Christiane Jatahy’s work: identifying the levers of change.


Cast

direction, adaptation, set design Christiane Jatahy

translation Dorothée Zumstein

artistic collaboration, set design, lighting Thomas Walgrave

director of photography, camera Paulo Camacho

costumes Fauve Ryckebusch

video system Julio Parente

original music Vitor Araujo

sound design Pedro Vituri

development collaboration, set design Marcelo Lipiani

dramaturg Márcia Tiburi, Christophe Triau 

assistant director Laurence Kelepikis

costume assistant Delphine Capossela

trainee director Maëlle Puéchoultres

stage design and lighting trainee Kes Bakker

company administrator Claudia Petagna

collaboration and assistant Henrique Mariano

production of the set Atelier de construction de l'Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and the technical team of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe




In the film: participation of Loïc Corbery (Phantom/Hamlet-father) and Jérémy Lopez (Gravedigger) from the Comédie-Française, Cédric Eeckhout (Gravedigger), Jorge Lorca (Laertes) and Julie Duclos (presenter).

production Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

in participation with Cie Vértice - Axis productions

coproduction Les Nuits de Fourvière - Festival international de la Métropole de Lyon, Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen

This show is supported by the Cercle de l'Odéon

the Vértice company is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France - Ministère de la culture

thanks to La Ferme du Buisson - scène nationale de Noisiel

Biography of Christiane Jatahy

Christiane Jatahy was born in Rio de Janeiro. Within the Companhia Vértice, which she founded in 2004, she constructs devices that cross the resources of theatre and cinema, and works on the porosity between the actor and the character.

An internationally renowned artist, she has made a name for herself in Europe with Julia and What if They Went to Moscow? based on Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie and Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Associate artist at the Odéon since 2016, she has presented A Floresta que anda (The Walking Forest), after Macbeth, and a diptych inspired by Homer: Ithaca (Our Odyssey 1) (2018) and The Present that Overflows (2019). In 2021, she will create Entre chien et loup , based on Dogville by Lars von Trier, the first chapter of the 'trilogy of horrors', devoted to the mechanisms of Bolsonaro's rise. This was followed by Before the Sky Falls, created at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich and again inspired by Macbeth; and Depois do silêncio (2022, with the Centquatre), which explores the history of slavery and land exploitation in Brazil. In January 2022, she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her body of work in theatre