Scenography, Hamlet

Scenography Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A tragedy written by William Shakespeare

Designing of a container as a scenery for Hamlet’s tragedy. The container’s dimensions are the following: 12mx2.5mx2.5m Hamlet falls and stands up. He is anguishing being in a constant wait. He is searching for the right way to take revenge for his father’s death and looking forward to the time that he will achieve it. He is striving to balance between life and death.

In the tragedy there is an instability and a constant wait. For this reason the action’s space had been designed in a way that different qualities of instability are brought about depending on the sentiments’ variance during the tragedy. This is achieved with the design of different rope grids that are sometimes more stable and sometimes more unstable. The actors - acrobats sometimes are striving to balance over the thin grids and sometimes they are very stable.

The action takes place on three different heights. The basic idea is the design of a metallic skeleton frame that defines the container’s limits and the design of intermediate metallic elements that limit the different scenes with the specific rope grids and the three levels of the action.

3

Frontal View

0.80 m

2 1

1.60 m

Scenes ΔΙΑΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΤΟΨΕΩΝ ΧΩΡΩΝ ΔΡΑΣΗΣ - ΠΛΕΞΕΙΣ ΣΧΟΙΝΙΩΝ 1

2

Ghost

2.5 m

Gun Tower

4m

Cementary

3m

Polonios behind the carpet

2.5 m

3

Monologue

Entrance

1m

1.5 m

Cementary

4m

3m

Queen’s Room

Ofilia in the river

2.5 m

0.8 m

Claudio Gertroudi Corpse Corpse

Laerti Corpse

Carpet

Monologues

Gun Tower

Hamlet Corpse

Hall Polonios Room

Cementary

Ofhlia Corpse

Polonio Corpse

Scenography Supervisor: Eva Manidaki Student: Liapopoulou Anna