Hamlet

AfterLes Damnés, Électre / Oreste and Tartuffe or l'Hypocrite, Ivo Van Hove returns to the Comédie-Française company to take on Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's most vertiginous tragedies and a monument of the Western repertoire. With a small cast, the Belgian director plunges into the tormented subjectivity of the Danish prince, marked by the sudden disappearance of his father and his mother's hasty remarriage to his uncle, usurper of the throne. Scene after scene, Ivo Van Hove transforms the stage into a mental territory, a reflection of Hamlet's confusion, to better capture the tipping point when youth, humiliated and powerless, slides towards violence and destruction. For while Hamlet initially believes he can rely on the powers of theater to restore the truth about the king's assassination, it is revenge that insidiously imposes itself as the inevitable outcome.