Shakespeare in Town! XI edition – Hamlet

Festival Shakespeare in Town! XI Edition – HAMLET

10 – 25 October 2015

Savona

Hamlet is the tragedy we all think to be familiar with (“To be or not to be”) and exactly for this reason the 2015 festival presents a different and unusual version of it. The subject of the festival, in fact, is the first text of Hamlet published in 1603 which discloses dramaturgic choices that are very different from the ones of the traditional version.

The text, offers a harsh, effective and theatrically essential Hamlet and has been for a long time aim of discussion of what actually is the first “Quarto” of 1603 (a pirate version? The first Hamlet’s draft? A version for the scene?). Through its settled practice of joyful divulgation, the festival took us to get familiar with this unique text and to see it on the stage, for the first time in Italy, at the Chiabrera Theatre on October 24th and 25th, 2015.

SHAKESPEARE IN TOWN!
11° EDITION 2015
Hamlet
October 10th – 25th, Savona
Artistic Director: Marco Ghelardi

Saturday 10th, 6:00 pm
IT’S A ONE-TAKE
The artistic director presents the text of Hamlet translated from the first edition (1603)
Priamar Fortress, Commissioner’s Chapel

Sunday 11th, 9:30 pm
WHAT IS A YOUTH
Dinner with musical theatre reading written by and featuring Elisabetta Mazzullo
Birreria Fuoritutti, Piazza D’Allaggio 5

Wednesday 14th, 8:30 pm
PLAY SHAKESPEARE
Shakespearean game
La Boutique della Birra, Corso Vittorio Veneto 20r

Thursday 15th, 8:30 pm
WHAT IS A YOUTH
Dinner with musical theatre reading written by and featuring Elisabetta Mazzullo
Bistrot Fuoridallerighe, Via Pia 118r

Friday 16th, 6:00 pm
AT SCHOOL WITH SHAKESPEARE
Meeting about Shakespeare and Didactics
With Raffaella Bergonzi, Anna Sottilaro e Marco Ghelardi
Bookstore La Feltrinelli Point, Via Astengo 9/11r

Saturday 17th, 9:00 pm
I AM NOT WHAT I AM
Theatrical performance, Cooperativa AttivaMente
Arci Association Chapeau, Via Quarda Inferiore 3r

HAMLET
By William Shakespeare – first edition (1603)
Translated and directed by Marco Ghelardi
Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th 9:00 pm
21th – 22th – 23th Matinee performances for schools

Also this year BOOKCROSSING is working for all the duration of the festival. Find the new translation of Hamlet throughout the city!

“Shakespeare in Town!” 11° Edition
HAMLET
Organized by the acting company “Salamander”, sponsored and carried out with the contribution of Liguria Region – Cultural and Show Business division, Municipality of Savona – Cultural division, A. De Mari Foundation. Initiative organized with the contribution of the Chamber of Commerce of Savona and with the support of Coop Liguria.

In cooperation with
Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics – University of Pisa
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature – University of Milan
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies