Amleto2 - Filippo Timi

Filippo Timi presents a new edition of his Hamlet, a reinterpretation where every gesture or word becomes a game and a personal voice, an intelligent provocation. Timi takes Shakespeare's text and twists it, overturning passions and characters in the same circus cage within which this praise of madness takes place. His Hamlet is bored, no longer wanting to play the same family tune, no longer wanting to love Ophelia, no longer wanting anything. In vain, voices offstage call him back to his fate. Like a lion in a cage, the prince, a spoiled child and visionary poet, wanders through a mournful party. Around him, characters directly sprung from his mad mind, interpreted by the historic actresses of his company, once again exceptionally together to bring this new edition to life. As philosopher Lorenzo Chiuchiù writes, Timi inscribes Hamlet's destiny in a dimension outside of history: "the words we speak are words learned by heart" - says Hamlet to Ophelia; or "The theater is the trap with which I will catch conscience" because it is only in fiction that conscience exists.

For Filippo Timi, it is Hamlet who opens the dangerous breach through which the dead demand something from the living, when past loves tear apart current ones, when purity sinks without witnesses. Faced with reality, faced with certain irremediable events, the heart and brain go crazy, needing to find escapes to avoid suffering. Is laughter the conscience's response to tragedy? Laugh at the crying. Laugh at death. Laugh at abandonment. Laugh at betrayal. Laugh at madness.

A disconcerting, comic, furious, mad, and colorful Hamlet. In the face of tragedy, there are two possibilities: succumb or explode in the height of vitality. Timi has chosen the second, transforming tragedy into comedy, between power and oblivion, between frivolity and madness; thus exaggerating Shakespeare's comedic root that led Nietzsche to say: "I do not know of a more agonizing reading than Shakespeare: what must a man have suffered to have such a need to clown around".
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