concert film  | salle modulable | running time around 1 hr | 8 years and older
premiere
in collaboration with the Festival Jeune Public Momix

thursday 26 january 2012 at 19 h
friday 27 january 2012 at 20 h 30
saturday 28 january 2012 at 19 h 30

after William Shakespeare and

Back to the classic of classics, then: freeze! What would it be like to revisit the famous tragedy, translating it into contemporary language, in which the playwright’s words will dialogue with the music as well as with the image and its inexhaustible capacity for illusion? Can we betray Shakespeare just a little in order to really do him justice? How about if Hamlet were a super hero with exceptional powers? This is what the La Cordonnerie company, which has created this wacky cine-spectacle, has chosen as its starting point. Hamlet, a naive young man, must avenge the murder of his father and reestablish the truth in Denmark, this kingdom where “something is definitely rotten.” This funny, screwball play and its multiple effects gives the Ghost a body, does send poor Ophelia to the convent while hanging onto her rag dolls, and fights duels with forks and knives. And of course Hamlet is now (super) Hamlet. Yet it is Shakespeare himself who speaks, his genius and his fantasy reaching even the youngest audiences’ ears.

www.lacordonnerie.com

school performance
Friday 27 January at 2:30 PM

scenario, adaptation Samuel Hercule, Métilde Weyergans / music Timothée Jolly / lighting, technical direction Johannes Charvolin, Sébastien Dumas / sound score, sound engineer Adrian Bourget, Éric Rousson / with (on stage and on screen) Samuel Hercule, Timothée Jolly, Florie Perroud, Métilde Weyergans

Coproduction La Cordonnerie / La Filature, Scène nationale – Mulhouse / the Aragon Cultural Centre in Oyonnax / Le Granit, Scène nationale de Belfort / the théâtre de la Renaissance of Oullins. With the support from the TRAFFO_CarréRotondes. La Cordonnerie receives support from the Rhône-Alpes region. This piece was created following a residency at La Filature in December 2011 and January 2012.

exhibition / 8 years and older / galerie / admission free
from Friday 6 to Saturday 28 January

Claudius m'a tuer

Samuel Hercule

This exhibition prolongs the cine-concert of (super) Hamlet. It consists of a mix of installations and visual tableaux created using the costumes of the film, puppets/ effigies of the characters in the play as well as video projections.
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