Theatre: To be

Allée des Près, Salle des Fêtes

Do you think you know Hamlet? Four actors have decided to start over from the beginning and derail everything. For a little over an hour, they seize Shakespeare's masterpiece and sift it through burlesque, clowning, musical parody, and theater. The skull, the ghost, the great duel, the famous tirade. Nothing is spared, everything is re-enacted, misdirected, sung with infectious joy. It’s funny, it’s rhythmic, it’s absurd. And then, in the margins of the prank, a discreet presence awaits its turn. That of a character we have always watched die without…