OPHELIAMASCHINE

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theatre
video design
directed by Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė
at Berliner Ensemble

SYNOPSIS

In 1979, deep in the Cold War, Hamlet – in Heiner Müller’s equally radical and epochal Shakespeare-paraphrase Hamletmaschine – is at a crossroads between the systems, worn down by ossified ideologies, numbed by brutality and banality. In 2022, more than 40 years later, Ophelia takes his place. In Magda Romanska’s post-dramatic response to Müller, she attempts to take over the narrative as the author of her own fragmented story: A lover and a madwoman on the debris of Western values and goods. Opheliamaschine, directed by Lithuanian director Uršulė Barto, is the first work in the series WORX.