Director: Fernando Vidal Medina
Playwright: Heiner Muller, William Shakespeare
Institution: Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes, Cali
Venue: Teatrino - Teatro Municipal “Enrique Buenaventura”
Time: May 19, 2015
Event: ATEC 9th International Forum
The Director
Fernando Medina Vidal is a professor at the School of Performing Arts in the area of Performance and Theatre Production; he is a playwright, director and researcher in urban aesthetics. He studied at the Professional Actors Workshop (RESAD-Spain) where he led the Independent Theatre La Luna. In Chile he directed a co-production of Iberescena and in Cali, in addition to teaching at the School and the Popular Culture Institute (IPC), he has staged performances with La Farsa Theatre, Viento Raspao Theatre Project and the Theatre of the City. Among his plays are A Nocturne for Laura F, Unisex Salon, A Quarter to Four and Dress Rehearsal. He was dean of the FAE and currently directs the journal Papel Escena.
Synopsis
Machinery Hamlet is the result of an exploration process and a decipherment of Muller's play, Hamlet Machine, from the perspective of the intrigues of power and their impact on the collective imagination. Moreover, we approach Shakespeare from his ghostly characters who burst on stage as a contrast to the games of representation. The playwright's proposal is to bring the crisis in theatre aesthetics to the stage, so his statements run through the adaptation. The play addresses the issue of power in a disenchanted world, full of uncertainties, where representation itself is affected by the exuberance of contradictory information. Hamlet Machinery reflects on the needs to restore the human dimension to life, amid the negative effects of war and the indolent prolongation of the exercise of power.