BARTO
THEATRE DIRECTOR
OPHELIAMASCHINE
Based on Magda Romanska
2022 September 30th
PRODUCED BY:
BERLINER ENSEMBLE
DIRECTOR
Uršulė Barto
COMPOSER
Yuliia Vlaskina
COSTUME AND SET DESIGNER
Katja Pech
VIDEO ARTISTS
Greta Markurt, Luna Zscharnt
TRANSLATED BY:
Theresa Schlesinger
DIRECTOR'S ASSISTANT
Kathinka Schroeder
DRAMATURGE
Jan-Stephan Schmieding
ACTORS
Nina Bruns
Maximilian Diehle
Hilke Altefrohne
Review (in German):
Ophelia jumps out of the box and empowers herself
"The great, playful Nina Bruns knows how to breathe credible life into this complexity. “I'm pregnant,” she calls out over and over again, jumping out of her box - only to return there again, disappointed or snubbed by the reaction of her lover (Maximilian Diehle) or his mother Gertrud (Hilke Altefrohne). In the dance around Ophelia's versatility as a woman, as a lover, as an intellectual, she gets entangled with Hamlet again and again. In its best moments there is something refreshingly anarchic about it, but in its weaker moments it unfortunately remains incomprehensible without more detailed knowledge of the original text."
Felix Müller for Berliner Morgenpost