"Hamlet" at the Yermolova Theatre. Sasha Petrov as Hamlet

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

"The tragic story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", commonly known under the short title "Hamlet", is a truly cult work. The drama has become the basis of many theatrical productions. The plot of the great Shakespeare did not pass by the Moscow Yermolova Theater.

W. Shakespeare's Hamlet

It makes no sense to retell the summary of Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Each of the active (and not so) users of the Network can open Briefly and get acquainted with the storyline of the tragedy of the legendary Briton. Or go to the same Yermolova theater and remember the eternal work about the Danish prince. Let's take a different path and reveal the main message of William Shakespeare.

So what, as they say in schools, did the author want to convey to the reader? During the analysis of this issue, a whole range of problems and eternal disputes for literature opens up: love and betrayal, honor and dishonor, conscience and its absence. Shakespeare puts the glorification of true family values at the forefront. Hamlet in hisinterpretation is a just avenger for the unjust death of his father. Revenge is always something terrible, contrary to moral standards, but the English genius takes it upon himself to justify the Danish prince. To agree with him or not is the personal choice of each. The performance "Hamlet" at the Yermolova Theater gives us the possibility of this very choice.

"Hamlet" with Sasha Petrov

All inveterate theater-goers know that the Russian star Sasha Petrov, who has recently ascended the theatrical Olympus, is one of the key figures in the corpse of the Yermolova Theater. The director of "Hamlet" at the Yermolova Theater Valery Sarkisov connects the idea of staging a performance based on the tragedy of William Shakespeare precisely with his acquaintance with Alexander Petrov. In it, Sarkisov himself and the artistic director of the theater Oleg Menshikov saw the same Danish prince Hamlet. Sasha, in the opinion of personalities recognized in the theater world, in all aspects corresponded to the image they saw, and the performance, so to speak, arose precisely around the young artist.

In Sarkisov's interpretation, Shakespeare's Hamlet appears before the audience as a young man, squeezed in the grip of circumstances and tormented by them in every possible way, his word would have been thrown "into a melting furnace". The hero of Petrov is a bright individuality, a personality with a capital letter, which is surrounded by a dense veil of stench of lies, betrayal and death. Each step taken by Hamlet is his attempt to answer the question: "To be or not to be?" or "Why did I come into this world?". Together with his character Sasha Petrovbefore our eyes grows and develops on the theater stage as a person. Rave reviews about "Hamlet" theater Yermolova confirm this fact. The protagonist becomes a real man, a person who, by force of will, is able to decide on a worthy deed.

Information about the play

The premiere of the play "Hamlet" at the Yermolova Theater took place in the winter of 2013. For five years now, a lively interest in the production of the audience has not subsided. Theatergoers go to see Hamlet themselves and bring their children. The age category of the performance is from twelve years old and above. True, restless little viewers may be somewhat confused by the duration - two hours and fifty minutes (with intermission). However, the interest that will light up in their eyes from the very first minutes will most likely defeat all doubts.

In addition to Sasha Petrov, the performance involves such famous actors as the Honored Artist of Russia Boris Mironov, as well as young and talented Ekaterina Lyubimova and Kristina Asmus. The price of one ticket for "Gamelet" at the Yermolova Theater varies from two hundred to two thousand rubles.

Tours

In 2018, the play "Hamlet" was included in the tour plan of the Yermolova Theatre. On June 15, it was shown at the Orenburg Regional Drama Theater of M. Gorky. Previously, the production was appreciated by the audience of Orsk, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Yaroslavl, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and other cities of our vast country.