My Hamlet

By William Shakespeare

 

Adaptation by Goderdzi Totochava and Besik Kupreishvili

 

"My Hamlet"

 

Directed by Beso Kupreishvili

Set and Costume Designers: Vakhtang Koridze, Maia Sulkhanishvili
Composer: Ioseb Bardanashvili
Music Director: Zurab Gagloshvili
Choreographer: Gia Marghania
Technical Director: Tinatin Sirbiladze

 

Duration: 100 minutes, without intermission.

 

Cast

The Cleaner / Hamlet: Keti Tskhakaia

Puppeteers: Maia Sulkhanishvili, Lile Pilpani, Salome Gelenidze, Tamta Merabishvili, Ana Zaslavska, Kato Japaridze, Nikoloz Shaburishvili, Giorgi Chkuaseli, Zaal Kakabadze 

 

About Performance

 

Keti dreams of nothing but the stage, but her world shatters when she is rejected at her theater university entrance examinations. Undeterred and desperate to remain close to the world she loves, she takes a job as a cleaning lady at a local theater.

 

While sweeping out an empty dressing room, she accidentally discovers a copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. What begins as a quiet curiosity quickly turns into an awakening. As she recites the timeless lines, the boundaries of her reality fade; she gradually immerses herself in the tragic prince's psychological depths, transforming a forgotten dressing room into her own grand, private stage.