Hamlet
Teatro La Plaza
Peru
A group of people with Down’s syndrome take to the stage to share their longings and frustrations through a free version of Hamlet. The play is a weaving between Shakespeare’s text and the lives of the actors and takes as its starting point the question of existence: To be or not to be? What does it mean to be for people who cannot find spaces where they are taken into account?
Historically, people with DS have been considered a burden, a social waste. What value and meaning does their existence have today in a world where efficiency, production capacity and unattainable models of consumption and beauty are the paradigm of the human being?
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BOOKING CONTACT:
Pearl Herbert
Pearl Herbert
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PRAISE FOR
Hamlet
"Another Hamlet is possible: actors with disabilities overcome prejudices and triumph on the theatrical stage"
Raquel Vidales, El PAÍS
"All the actors and actresses are Hamlet, each and every one of them are themselves, besides their other roles, they all show themselves from their own selves so that the spectators can complete their aesthetic incitement and elevate it to something that goes from the most personal to the collective, a great achievement of this proposal of an immeasurable artistic category."
Carlos Gil
"Merging things that were not born to be together and see how their union produces clarity over an area of the human that was in the dark: they say that is what art consists of."
Mariana de Althaus
