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 take the Shakespeare masterpiece and sift it through burlesque, clowning, musical parody, and theater. The skull, the ghost, the great duel, the famous soliloquy. Nothing is spared, everything is replayed, distorted, sung with a contagious joy. It’s funny, rhythmic, absurd. And then, in the margins of the joke, a discreet presence waits for its turn. That of a character we have always watched die without…