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The Indo-American Arts Council
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Hamlet: The Clown Prince
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July 1st and 2nd , 2014
at The Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, NYC.
Tickets: $56 general admission, $51 IAAC members
There will be a post-performance discussion with the Director &
cast on July 2nd, 2014.
Please rsvp: events.iaac@gmail.com
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| Synopsis |
| A bunch of clowns are putting up a show of hamlet- they sometimes misinterpret the text, sometimes find new meanings in it, sometimes try and understand it, very often make a mess of it. They chose to use some phrases from the play and mixed it with gibberish. They even edited the text, threw out some important scenes, and made a mess of the order of things as if the pages got mixed up. But through this all they were simply looking for the essence of hamlet, and trying to find a context in our own times. |
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| Director’s Note |
| Hamlet is a play that has fascinated me for a long time- as I am sure it has theatre practitioners all over the world- over the last 4 centuries. Of course we had to find a way to do it. Also- my last few productions (C for Clown, The King’s Last Tear- as well as The Blue Mug directed by Atul Kumar of which I was a part) have all been original creations- not based on a text but something that was created during the rehearsals. This is a process that is truly exciting for me and we wanted to continue on the same road. That is how one thought of using the Clown to kind of interpret Hamlet. It allows us a direct entry into the text- and we are able to interpret it directly bringing our sensibilities into the text. |
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The Indo-American Arts Council is a 501 ©3 not-for-profit secular arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of artists of Indian origin in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and folk arts. For information please visit .
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