Hashima Hamlet

A reconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet with Gon Ramos and Javier Ruiz de Alegría, who are working together again after La familia no and Ciclos. A contemporary theatre production that combines object theatre, kamishibai and ikebana.

This contemporary theatre piece takes Shakespeare's classic as its starting point and reworks it on the Sala Negra stage of Teatros del Canal, as part of the Festival de Otoño. Gon Ramos and Javier Ruiz de Alegría are the names associated with the production, which explores memory, identity and the ephemeral nature of life.

On stage, a contemporary rhapsode recounts the story with a small paper theatre inherited from his mother, who can now barely speak or move. The narrator wavers between continuing with a craft tied to his own identity or giving it up after the loss. Alongside him, the director and author of the production builds the characters and spaces of Elsinor castle with ikebana, while the floral compositions help the mother recover memories of her life.

The staging engages in dialogue between Shakespeare's text and materials of an ephemeral nature: kamishibai, object theatre and flowers. The stories appear, transform and vanish before the audience, just like the flowers, and with them the idea of a memory vulnerable to the passing of time and to oblivion is reinforced.