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Multidisciplinary Arts
Canada
Dance
Theater

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Ex Machina / Robert Lepage and Côté Danse / Guillaume Côté

May 8 — 11, 2025

100 minutes with no intermission Hydro-Québec Auditorium

15% discount pour Les Amants du Diamant
$20 — 20 years old and younger
25 % discount for students
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Tickets starting from $66

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Description

Hamlet is in a dark place. Full of doubt, and perhaps touched by madness. After the death of his father under questionable circumstances, he loses his footing… Is his entourage lying to him? Is his mind, muddled with apparitions, failing? When reason wavers, how can we distinguish between truth and falsehood, how can we distinguish between the faithful and the traitors?

Co-created by choreographer Guillaume Côté and director Robert Lepage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark immerses the viewer in a world of deceptive appearances, where ghosts and humans rub shoulders in a minimalist scenography. Light, shadows and transparency play a central role. This metaphorical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s narrative draws the fine line between what is and what is not in the vagaries of the mind and the movements of the body.

Show Times

Thursday May 8, 2025 7:30PM Tickets

Friday May 9, 2025 7:30PM Tickets

Saturday May 10, 2025 3:00PM Tickets

Sunday May 11, 2025 3:00PM Tickets

Designed and Directed by Robert Lepage

Cast

Hamlet Guillaume Côté
Gertrude Greta Hodgkinson
Claudius Robert Glumbek
Ophelia Carleen Zouboules
Laertes Lukas Malkowski
Polonius To be announced
Horatio Natasha Poon Woo
Rosencrantz Connor Mitton
Guildenstern Willem Sadler

Credit

Designed and Directed by Robert Lepage
Co-designed and Choreographed by Guillaume Côté
Based on the work by William Shakespeare
Creative Director Steve Blanchet
Assistant Director Félix Dagenais
Creative Assistant and Rehearsal Director Anisa Tejpar
Composer John Gzowski
Associate Set and Props Designer Vanessa Cadrin
Lighting Designer Simon Rossiter
Costume Designer Michael Gianfrancesco and Monika Onoszko
Artistic Collaborator Olivier Normand
Fight Consultant Jack Rennie
Production Manager Nadia Bellefeuille
Technical Director - Creation Antoine Caron
Tour Manager Anisa Tejpar
Technical Director - Touring Antoine Caron
Stage Manager Francis Beaulieu
Sound Manager Stanislas Elie
Lighting Manager Billy Bergeron
Head Stagehand Jérôme Dion
Costumes and Props Manager Jeanne Lapierre
Head Stagehand - Creation Sébastien Côté
Costume Manager - Creation Émilie Potvin
Assistant Costume Designer Allie Marshall
Sound Project Manager and R&D Stanislas Elie
Video Project Manager and R&D Samuel Sérandour
Recording studio Cantebury Sound
Producer/engineer David Travers-Smith
Musician
Cello Amahl Arulanandam
Bass Jessi Dietschi
Percussion Mark Duggan
Hurdy gurdy / percussion Ben Grossman
Electric guitar John Gzowski
Violin Drew Jurecka
Viola Shannon Knights
Bass Joe Phillips
Saxophone / clarinet Ernie Tollar
Violin Rebekah Wolkstein
Voice
Patricia O’Callaghan
Set builders Astuce Décors, ShowTex, Conception Alain Gagné, Ex Machina / Bruno Petit, Ex Machina / Catherine Ouellet
Set & props building collaborators Geneviève Bournival, Marie-Pascale Chevarie, Béatrice Lecomte-Rousseau, Suzanne Pouliot-Cadrin, Myriam Richer, Charlyne Roux
Masks Danielle Boutin
Costume builders Felsen Tailors, Lela Stairs, Sue Furlong
Communications Coordinator Nina Lauren
Robert Lepage's Agent Lynda Beaulieu
Produced by Ex Machina / Côté Danse / Dvoretsky Productions
Producer - Ex Machina Michel Bernatchez
Producer - Côté Danse Etienne Lavigne
Associate Production - Europe, Japan Epidemic (Richard Castelli assisted by Florence Berthaud)

They Said...

« Their collaboration (Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté) has resulted in a Hamlet that is unlike anything I have seen in many years of attending dance performances. [...] The drowning of Ophelia was astonishing to watch. [...] It is a unique and exciting thriller, unlike a traditional Shakespearean tragedy. »
Third Coast Review

« Each dancer is subjected to strenuous paces—executed with virtuosic triumph. »
Chicago Reader

« The most compelling parts of this production make fantastic use of stagecraft to tell the story in indelible images. »
Chicago Reader

« Ophelia’s drowning scene is a theatrical coup. [...]There are too many arresting and creatively devised moments to recount. Suffice it to say this Hamlet is a gorgeous feast for the senses. »
Chicago Stage and Screen

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