Together with the performance artist Snežana Golubovic, the Düsseldorf director and media artist Alessandro De Vita dives into the world of Ophelia - the famous character from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The starting point of the performance is that Ophelia is not dead. She has not drowned, as we all think we know, but has crossed the river to reach an unknown space where only time moves forward while everything else remains unchanged. The audience is thus taken on a journey into a world where a woman's hallucinations, pain and renunciation towards her beloved are enacted. The Ophelia we meet here has broken out of one reality to create a reality all her own, in which she can enact the same story every day. She is a perfectly set clock whose hands make their rounds, always returning diligently and without grumbling to the starting point.

This journey is staged with music, spoken texts and singing, inspired by Italian, German and Serbo-Croatian folk songs. The necessity of multilingualism arises here from the universal aspect of human existence depicted in the play, into which the memories of the Balkan conflict, the idea of wars, of surviving the horror, the silence and the Holocaust are inserted. It is not only the story of a missed love, an unjust death and a wasted life, but the totality of all the missed things that are allowed to go to waste in hidden places.

Concept/Direction/Dramaturgy: Alessandro De Vita
Performance: Snežana Golubovic
Music/Sound Design: Madì
Technician/Lighting Design: Phillipp Zander
Photographer: Serena Scionti
Management/PR: Alexandra Schmidt

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Sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf.