Hamlet & Ophelia
An 8-part, online series
Premieres April 1st 2021
based on hamlet by william shakespeare
Directed By Scott westerman
Hamlet & Ophelia is a love letter to live performance made during a time when performance could not be live. Denmark Circus has necessarily gone virtual. Skip-jumping along Shakespeare’s text, Ophelia’s story is unveiled in short digestible episodes. She is a silks aerialist. Hamlet is a clown who has lost all his mirth. The two conspire in hopes of finding out what really happened to their former ringleader. All contributing artists self-taped as individuals or within personal quarantine pods.
This production was born out of the last year, when every person we know has felt a collective loss of connection and has come to heavily rely on modern tools of connectivity. The concept leans into the technology we must use to tell the story. The audience will experience watching it in the same way the actors had to perform it: at home, through a screen, in isolation. In doing so, perhaps a connection can be made, even with 400-year-old text, between actor and audience as we separately navigate new forms and experiences together.
Artist Credits:
Actors Gymnasium Circus School and Theatre Company
The Artistic Home
HellsGate Haunted House
Kayla Adams - Production
Jim Becker - Co-composer and Arrangements, Recordings at Sloth Studio, Musician
James Clayton Bowman - Contributing Editor
Mark Bracken - Consulting Artist, Lighting & Production Design
Devon Carson - Assistant Director, Lead Editor
Satya Chávez - Composer, Musician
Reid Coker - Composer and Arrangements, Recordings at The Attic, Musician, Guildenstern
Sara Ann Dickey - Production Manager
Kyle Ford - Fire Artist (https://youtube.com/user/kylerfordable)
Brooklyn Hebert - Marketing, Consulting Artist; Graphic Design
Ernest Henton - Rosencrantz
Molly Hernández - Cocreator, Ophelia
Julian Hester - Cocreator, Hamlet
Annie Hogan - Contributing Artist
Thymme Jones - Co-composer and Arrangements, Recordings at Cheer-Ax Basement, Musician
John LaFlamboy - Production, Location Manager, Production Design, Claudius
Patrick McGee - Consulting Artist; Graphic Design
Tom McNelis - Production Assistant
Audrey Palumbo - Director of Photography
Kathy Scambiatterra - Production, Gertrude
Bethany Smoker - Vocal Arrangements, Musician
Ellie Sorokin - Fire Artist (elliesorokin.com)
Lauren Valice - Production
Scott Westerman - Cocreator, Director, Polonius
Milo Westerman - Contributing Artist
Trell Winters - Reynaldo
Todd Wojcik - Contributing Artist
Joshua Zambrano - Laertes
Sound effects sourced from Zapsplat.com