Inside Hamlet, Staged by Odyssé, a participatory agency with experience in transmedia, digital storytelling, role playing, larp and co-creative participatory events. Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark, 6 March, 2015. www.insidehamlet.com “The Actors Are Come Hither”: Hamlet as LARP Reviewed by Kiki Lindell ‘Inside Hamlet it set in an alternate reality where the French revolution never […]
Hamlets; directed by Daniel Tyler for The Young REP at the Birmingham Library, Birmingham, UK. 21 March 2015, [the only] matinee. Reviewed by Thea Buckley and Sara Marie Westh Hamlet and Hamlet is the singular traditional pinnacle of theatrical achievement, the measuring stick held up to the actor’s self and the world. But with great […]
Directed by Ragna Weisteen for Sommarteater på Krapperup in Höganäs, Sweden, 25 July, 2014. Reviewed by Kiki Lindell I saw this production with a group of my students who recently studied and played Romeo and Juliet themselves (in English, at Lund University). Beforehand, they laughingly acknowledged that they fully intended to remain unimpressed, and prefer […]
Directed by Lars Romann Engel for HamletScenen at Kulturværftet, Elsinore, Denmark, 5 March 2014. Review by Kiki Lindell Arriving at Elsinore is always best by sea. On the ferry from the Swedish side of the straits, you see Kronborg Castle emerging from the mist, suspended between heaven and earth on its peninsula; an outpost of […]
