HAMLET. ENSAYO EN LA TORMENTA

[Hamlet. Rehearsal in the Storm]
Jóvenes Clásicos
Author and stage direction José Carlos Cuevas
With José Carlos Cuevas and Lorena Roncero

1.10 h (w/out intermission)
www.jovenesclasicos.com
photo ©Miguel Ángel Almanza

Hamlet is a work of unquestionable dramatic stature. Analysed from many different points of view, its great complexity ensures that every new era can see itself reflected in it. Among its many interpretations there appears to be a subtle clinical testimony - in a poetic tone - of a depressive state of mind. The play’s main character shows a deep melancholy that seems to have taken hold of him. Shakespeare himself, who was familiar with Timothy Bright's Treatise of melancholie, treats Hamlet as a depressive case and tries hard to make us see him as such.
Adolfo Marsillach used to say that fiction is just an unsuspected facet of reality. Thus, in Hamlet. Ensayo en la tormenta, a director and an actress, naked in front of their ghosts, try to rehearse Shakespeare’s play while offering the spectator an intense mosaic that illuminates the most painful and darkest areas of depression, which has emerged as the number one enemy of mental health in this millennium. Because every storm always begins with a small drop of water.
Jóvenes Clásicos is a company from Malaga that focuses its activity on making contemporary plays from classical texts, which they adapt and bring closer to today's audiences.
Despite its short trajectory, it is the winner of the 7th Almagro OFF edition, has received six Ateneo de Teatro de Málaga awards, the Florencio Award for Best Foreign Show (Uruguay), 1st Prize for Artistic Production awarded by the City Council of Malaga and five nominations for the Lorca Awards of the Academy of Performing Arts of Andalusia.

Theater 42nd Theatre Festival