Titta Hamlet (Look Hamlet) - Orionteatern
The jury’s motivation
Director Lars Rudolfsson and Orionteatern’s ensemble have created a wonderful and associative work of art based on Barbro Lindgren's storybook with Anna Höglund's illustrations. World drama boiled down in an absurd and drastic miniature format becomes physical theatre in nonsense language about the vulnerability of children in a rotten and powerful adult world. The child's perspective is a guiding star. It is challenging and wonderful, moving and amusing, breathtaking and astonishing.
Orionteatern has collaborated several times over the years with Barbro Lindgren, a beloved and acclaimed author. As Orionteatern celebrated its 40th anniversary, it is natural to return to Barbro Lindgren's fantastic world and, with love and seriousness, invite both younger and older audiences to our theater.
This time, Orionteatern tackled the largest of all dramas and the smallest of all books, the picture book "Look Hamlet." Barbro Lindgren and Anna Höglund, with extremely concise text accompanied by imaginative pictures, have created a tragedy for all ages.
It's the adult world against the children. There are secrets behind heavy curtains; it is loveless and, at the same time, loving. Hamlet has only one friend, Ophelia. Both are sacrificed in the adults' struggle for power and honor.
The grandstand is dismantled so that the entire theater space can be used as a stage, and an ensemble consisting of mime artists and actors brings to life the mysteries and cruel events of the picture book on the stage.
As always, Barbro Lindgren stands in solidarity with the children, the defenseless. Without sentimentality, she paints a picture of a harsh society that cannot tolerate weakness in short text fragments. A society without human and childlike values
Credits:
Cast
Scary skeleton Martin Hasselgren
Ofelia's shady father Richard Ahlman
Hamlet's new stupid father Thomas Roos
Hamlet's dead father Niklas Lindgren
Hamlet's mother Lena Strömdahl
Ofelia's brother Malin From
Ofelia Nina Irendotter
Hamlet Lydia Flores Garcia
Team
By Barbro Lindgren and Anna Höglund
Directed by Lars Rudolfsson
Scenography John Engberg
Costume design Kersti Vitali Rudolfsson and Karin Höeg
Mask design Anna Olofson
Light design Anders Rosenquist
Composer and sound design Maria Bergström *
Set painting My Leffler
Special costume Hanna Rönnbäck
Tailors Gudrun Rösnes, Magnus Forthmeiier and Annette Wahlberg
Costume patination Ing-Britt Sundin
Ghost Flight Ulf "Poly" Nylin
Lighting director Raimo Nyman
Run technicians Marta Khomenko and Raimo Nyman
Stage technicians Ida Sundberg and Kristofer Ahlfeldt
System engineer Niklas Nordström
Costume technicians Gudrun Rösnes and Mathilda Arnerdal
Carpenter Lars Kleen
Drawings Britta Kleen
Decorative painting internship Elina Aho (YH craft apprentice)
Scenography internship Mathilda Arnerdal
CEO and artistic director Lars Rudolfsson
Stage manager Torbjörn Isaksson
Communications manager Christopher Backholm
Economics Yvonne Dymock
School sales Ester Svanevik
Producer Anna Jonsson Björck and Ulrika Skoog Holmgaard
Publisher Colombine theater publisher
Illustrations Anna Höglund
Photo and design Christopher Backholm
* Internship from Stockholm University of the Arts
From 6 to 13 years