The international project was an initiative of the Drama theatre, and was actively supported by the Hålogaland Theater. Their first work meeting was held in Arkhangelsk and was devoted to organizing the visit of the Norwegian theatre to the Pomor capital.
Hålogaland Theater comes to Arkhangelsk in March and will show a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. According to Nina Wester, the Hamlet director the performance reflects gender prejudice of the society. Although you can see feministic topic through the performance, it reveals the notion of a man.
Nina Wester says the performance is very unusual and uncommon, the main character of it is a revolutionary.
“My interpretation of Hamlet does not have that much in common with classic Shakespeare plays, only the plot is left, I will not reveal all the secrets though, you should just see it. I think Russian public will be highly interested in it, they are used to see a different Shakespeare, than we are going to show,” says Nina Wester.
The international project was an initiative of the Drama theatre, and was actively supported by the Hålogaland Teater. Their first work meeting was held in Arkhangelsk and was devoted to organizing the visit of the Norwegian theatre to the Pomor capital.
The first meeting was mostly devoted to technical questions, the chief of the Arkhangelsk drama theatre Sergey Zaharov showed the Norwegian guests around the theatre and stage. Within the visit several parallel meetings were held of the theatres’ directors Nina Wester and Piotr Orlov, technical staff and a press-conference was organized.
This project will become the first step in a long-term cooperation, Hålogaland Theater is planning to invite Arkhangelsk theatre to visit Tromsø in 2014.
Text: Ksenia Kipurova
