For this final term we are working with the script of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The first part of this term we are working on an installation piece, exploring alternative forms of performance practices, environments and approaches to text and audience. Working in small groups we will come up with an angle to explore to make a small installation of one of the characters from Hamlet.
Our group was given Claudius, the uncle who kills Hamlets father, his brother to take the thrown and become king. The central theme is the problem of revenge, because of the time in which it would have been written, the influence of the culture of England as well as Denmark would have helped shaped the plot of the play.
From reading the book Hamlet and listening to an audio version, it allows us to understand the feelings behind the style of writing and helps by giving the words in the book 'embodied', giving them a stronger sense and purpose.
'The origin of the story of Hamlet is quite ancient. It first appears in a book called Historiae Danicae, a collection of stories about the history if Denmark, written in Latin by the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus. He wrote at the end of the twelfth century, and his book was first published in 1514.'
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, ISBN 0-333-5135-9
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