SHIMI HAMLET
SHIMI HAMLET
SHIMI HAMLET
Depicted from the perspective of the people around Hamlet as a work evoking the concepts of “other people” and “hikikomori” social withdrawal, the reworked story of this production of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” sees Hamlet behaving oddly one day, and those around him struggling to find the cause and getting hurt by him in the process.
The aim was to reconstruct the play with a running time of 100 minutes and to bring Shakespeare’s words to life for the modern era without adding any new lines at all.
Performers
KURASHIMA Satoshi, MATSUOKA Miki, MARUBAYASHI Kotaro, KOBAYASHI Hazuki, SATO Jigen, OKUBO Yuna, NANAHOSHI Tabako, TATARA Gaku, NOZAWA Kohei, TAKII Miki
Production staff
Conception/direction: HAMAYOSHI Seitaro
Sound/Lighting: SAKURAUTI Shomi
Stage Manager: HONGO Tsuyoshi
Production: SHA RUH
Production assistant: IKENOGAMI Satsuki
Production cooperation: OONO Hajime
Production manager: HAMAYOSHI Seitaro
Production assistant: SEKIGUCHI Yohei
Operations on the day: KANAI Miki
Publicity art: KANESADA Kazusa
SHIMI
SHIMI is a theater troupe formed in 2021.
Its creative activities are based on the concept of “chewing” on plays from all times and places as nourishment for tomorrow like its namesake, the paper-eating insect, the shimi (silverfish).
Past productions include Nora, Ashes to Ashes, Salome, Autumn in Tyrol, The Human Voice, La Marie Vison (Mink Marie), and I Do! I Do!.
The group got through the first judging round for performances at Japan’s biggest directorial competition, the Theater people Competition in 2022 (the performance was canceled in the final judging round).
In 2024 the troupe performed Nora at China’s Chengdu-Chongqing International Theatre Festival.
Atelier Shumpusha, Itabashi City,Tokyo
