Erik Wilson staged a monoplay for young people, Hamlet / Day

Shakespeare’s large-scale stage work is transferred to a one-actor performance, which allows the audience to engage in a conversation about theater, life, history and relationships, playing out the situations that form the dramatic core of Hamlet.

“No classic dramaturgical composition – regardless of whether it is included in the curriculum or not – cannot be viewed in isolation from today’s context. Hamlets is a work that does not lose its relevance as generations change and is always able to reveal something true and important about today,” says actor and director Eric Wilson, adding, “I think this play is one huge mystery that is rooted in us and makes us think about the essential – why we are at this time, what we are doing, and why we live at all!”

This will be the third Cultural Development Society Tabala lapa the one-man show created by father and son – Erik and Robert Wilson – as director and playwright. “Yes, staging a one-man show with Eric The Lost Son of R. BlaumaņiI learned to juggle two balls, then now, working on Hamlet, already juggling three. And Eric juggles too. He must be able to keep his attention on several characters of the play at the same time, catch them, throw them in the air, but not forget them in flight,” says Robert Wilson about the collaboration.

Both agree that in the process of making any show, you never know what will come of it. However, mono performance is a special genre, because the audience becomes the partner of the actor’s game. “I’m really looking forward to the stage of dress rehearsals, because a show can only be born in interaction with the audience,” says Eric, and Robert adds: “We are convinced that the main raw material of the theater experience is precisely the audience’s imagination.”

Mono performance Hamlets has received support from both the target programs of the State Cultural Capital Fund Creating the contents of the Latvian school bag programa in the competition, both in the Liepāja cultural project competition 2022. Thanks to the support of the Liepāja Culture Board, six mono performances will be performed in Liepāja schools from February 21 to 28. On the other hand, starting from March, the mono performance will be available to young people all over Latvia.

Entrance to the premiere is free.