Collide is thrilled to present its upcoming production of Heiner Müller’s “Hamletmachine”; a collage of fragments, an orgy of deconstruction, directed by Emily Louizou. It invites you to walk through the pieces of a broken civilisation and experience a grotesque wasteland full of beauty and cruelty. The human body stands at its centre – fragile and yet capable of extreme destruction and pain.
We live in a time when Europe is facing all sorts of crises – economic, political, social, humanitarian ones – governments are busy burying these problems rather than facing them with actual solutions, and young people do not know which way to go. For Müller’s Hamlet to be a machine is to be free of cultural and personal memory, to feel no pain, to have no thoughts. With a disturbing energy Müller writes of the “ruins of Europe,” for a revolution that both reduces and elevates humans to machines. “Hamletmachine” is a harrowing portrait of the aftermath of a war, of life under crisis.
This provocative site-specific production invites you to enter a diseased crumbling world, and to experience the struggle for a new unspoiled one. “Hamletmachine” is a site-specific promenade performance in an unused warehouse near London Bridge as part of Ugly Duck’s latest creative season. Ugly Duck works with artists to create amazing events in unusual, underused spaces.
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