Marionette Hamlet

Marionette Hamlet

TitleMarionette Hamlet
CountryUSA
Production CompanyCAMT
Date05-02(Sat)~05-05(Tue)
Time05-02(Sat),03(Sun),05(Tue) 17:00 / 04(Mon) 19:30
Age restriction7y(Rate 7 and above)
Running time100mins
VenueSmall Theater of Busan Citizen's Hall
GenreMarionette Play (Director : VIT HOŘEJŠ)
Ticket25,000won
Websitehttp://www.czechmarionettes.org/

The show draws upon Shakespeare's text, Ur-Hamlet sources and a popular Czech puppet version published in Prague for a toy puppet theatre in its heyday, the 1920s. Director Vit Horejs conceived the production noting how Shakespeare's tragedy lends itself to a puppet interpretation with its themes of protagonists unable to escape their fate like marionettes manipulated by destiny. 

 The concept allows the audience to view the actions of the play through a double-prism as live performers mirror and comment on the actions of the marionettes, and vice-versa.

▪Introduction of Company :


CAMT(Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre) is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of traditional and not-so-traditional puppetry. The company has played to great acclaim in thirty-two states in the USA at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the World Trade Center; Lincoln Center Out of Doors; the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center; the Smithsonian Institution; the Antonín Dvořák Festival in Spillville, Iowa; the Heart of the Beast in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Lowell Folk Arts Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts; and Bohemian National Hall in New York City. CAMT has also performed at international festivals in Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, and the Czech Republic. 


The company conducts workshops at universities, schools, and festivals and in Summer 2013, Vít Hořejš  and Bonnie Sue Stein taught the International Director's Symposium at La MaMa Umbria in Italy.


 


Cast


DEBORAH BESHAW-FARRELL, OTIS COTTON, THERESA LINNIHAN 



Staff


Director VÍT HOŘEJŠ Musician Director Clifton Hyde Marionette design JAKUB "KUBA" KREJČÍ Stage Manager MICHELLE BESHAW Producer Bonnie Sue Stein

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