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Hamlet (Kasapoğlu, 2013-2014)

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Hamlet

A one-person performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Işıl Kasapoğlu and performed by Bülent Emin Yarar. It is an outstanding performance as part of the Shakespeare Year and Shakespeare Week celebrations of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday conducted by the State Theatres. Along with Yarar’s storytelling, his use of props like puppets and fabrics, and the use of a nutshell-like construction for the stage that opened and closed itself at the beginning and the end of the play, Hamlet indeed becomes “bounded in a nutshell” to consider himself “a king of infinite space” (2.2.273-4) in the rather liberating claustrophobia the stage construction creates.

 

Cast

Bülent Emin Yarar

 

Production Team

Costume and Stage Manager
Hakan Dündar

Dramaturgy
Zeynep Avcı

Lighting
Cem Yılmazer

Translator
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu

 

For more information, visit Devlet Tiyatrolar Genel Müdürlüğü.

Poster featuring Bülent Emin Yarar using puppetry for the play-within-the-play scene in Hamlet (2013-2014), image from SanatAtak.

 

Further Reading

Öğütcü, Murat. “Contemporary Turkish Shakespeares: New Breath to Old Lives.” Early Modern Liveness: Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen. Eds. Danielle Rosvally and Donovan Sherman. London: Arden, 2023. 145-169.

Early Modern Liveness book cover

 


Production notes provided by Associate Professor Dr. Murat Öğütcü, Adıyaman University, Turkey.

 

Hamlet

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more excerpts and interview by Ömer Ayan with Bülent Emin Yarar

Parts of the performance and an extended unofficial interview by Ömer Ayan (no subtitles yet).  more

Parts of the performance and an extended unofficial interview by Ömer Ayan (no subtitles yet).

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excerpts from Bülent Emin Yarar’s solo Hamlet and interview with him

Parts of the performance and a short official interview by the State Theatres (no subtitles yet).  more

Parts of the performance and a short official interview by the State Theatres (no subtitles yet).

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additional highlights of Bülent Emin Yarar in solo Hamlet

Extended parts of the performance (no subtitles yet).  more

Extended parts of the performance (no subtitles yet).

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highlights of Bülent Emin Yarar in solo Hamlet

Parts of the performance with English subtitles.  more

Parts of the performance with English subtitles.

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