5-29 MARCH
HAMLET,
DE LOS ANDES
Teatro de los Andes
Image by Sandra Sea
S U P P O RT E D B Y
THEATRE ROYAL, HOBART
20 - 23 MARCH
BURNIE ARTS & FUNCTION CENTRE
- ARTS THEATRE, BURNIE
26 & 27 MARCH
HAMLET,
DE LOS ANDES
Duration: 1 hour 20 mins (no interval)
SYNOPSIS
The death of a father. One of life’s challenges that
resonates with each of us. But, what if death is
not enough to end the relationship; when one is
persecuted by ghosts that insist on not being at
peace with us in the world of the living?
This Hamlet is a man of today who, like
Shakespeare’s character, has lost all understanding
of “himself”. His scholarly upbringing should enable
him to accept his father’s death and move on, but
his ghostly vision forces him to confront a different
view of the universe. Following the shadow of the
spirit, Hamlet traverses the unknown, on a journey
that may draw him closer to his ancestors and to
his roots. Through all that rational thought would
call name dreams, fantasy, mystery, superstition
and perhaps even madness, Hamlet seeks the
answer to his uncertainties. Living, dying perhaps
dreaming. While his mind travels through the
unknown, the real world crumbles around him
leaving a vacuum that remains nameless. Such is
Hamlet’s frustration and loss of his roots that he is
inflicted by an existential crisis that threatens to
drown him in alcohol.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Hamlet, de los Andes holds a very special place in
the history of Teatro de los Andes. After 20 years
as their Director, César Brie left the company and
Hamlet is their first production following his departure.
It is also the first time they have teamed up with a
guest director, Diego Aramburo. So in some ways
this production reflects what the company has been
going through: a moment of crisis and uncertainty
in defining their artistic identity, simultaneously
representing the continuity of a trajectory and the
beginning of a new path.
To start with, the company identified the themes
that interested them, and those which they wished
to treat in depth. They then put the text aside
and began creating improvisations and images
from those themes, and from others suggested
by the director, leaving the original story of
“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” aside. After they had
generated a lot of material, the director made his
selection, and, as they created a montage of his
selections, the reworking of the text happened in
parallel.
Teatro de los Andes’ work is essentially defined
by collective creation. “Group theatre” is their
philosophy, in the exact meaning of the term. Each
and everyone takes responsibility for the work in
every aspect, be it artistic, technical, structural
or organisational. In this way the production as
a whole is developed with all elements evolving
simultaneously: dramaturgy, music, set and costume
design.
Hamlet, de los Andes is a free adaptation of “The
Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” by William
Shakespeare. Their take on Hamlet is a “Bolivian”
one, drawn from a distinct reading by the company
and the director. They have put it together
contextualising it in the struggle and uncertainty of
trying to reconcile a modern world with an ancient
tradition, and restructuring it in an abridged version,
relying on just three actors and one musician. The
storyline and the events have been simplified and
the characters reduced. Their Hamlet is a modernday man who has lost his self-awareness. He faces
the impossibility of recognizing and coming to
terms with himself after the fall. Who is Hamlet? Is
it me or is it you? Is Hamlet the Teatro de los Andes
itself? Is it the most recent bit of Bolivian history?
By means of a proposal packed with metaphors
and intertextuality, Teatro de Los Andes’ Hamlet
experiences the uprising of the being, of art, of the
homeland, of the world.
A B O U T T E AT R O D E L O S A N D ES
Teatro de los Andes was founded in 1991, in the town
of Yotala, located close to Sucre in Bolivia, by Cesar
Brie, Naira Gonzalez and Giampaolo Nalli.
They live in their theatre-residence where they prepare
and present their plays. Here they also receive other
artists and organise meetings and workshops. Each
actor is the creator of a theatre they call a theatre of
“humour and memory.”
They seek to form a poet-actor in the etymological
sense of the word: maker and creator. To achieve this
they train physically and vocally everyday, working on
forms of improvisation and composition.
One of their motivations is to take theatre beyond the
stage to people in towns, squares, neighbourhoods and
communities.
Teatro de los Andes has produced over 24 different
plays presented in over 1620 performances and
attended by over 390,000 people in Bolivia, Central
and South America, the United States, Canada, New
Zealand, India and Europe.
At their residence they give training workshops in
actor development and staging on a national and
international level.
B I O G R A P H I ES
DIEGO ARAMBURO
Director/Text
Diego Aramburo is the founder and Director of
Kikinteatr, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Aramburo has
been awarded the National Theatre Prize of Bolivia
eight times. In Argentina he directed King Kong
Palace (2009) written by Marco Antonio de La Parra
and authored El preciso instante para no ser amado
(the precise moment not to be loved) (2011). He has
also directed and acted in the United States, Brazil,
France, Canada and his texts have been translated and
produced in various countries.
GIAMPAOLO NALLI
General Coordination
Co-founded Teatro de los Andes in 1991, along with
Naira Gonzalez and Cesar Brie. He is based in YotalaSucre, Bolivia and works as Legal Representative,
Manager, Producer and General Coordinator, in
addition to technical lighting, in many of the works
produced and performed by Teatro de los Andes.
ALICE PADILHA GUIMARAES
Actor/Costumes
Alice has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Performing
Arts from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
(Brazil). Alice has been an Actress, Assistant Director
and Teacher/Trainer with Teatro de los Andes since
1998. Since joining Teatro de los Andes she has been
responsible for running national and international
workshops.
VICTOR GONZALO CALLEJAS
Actor/Set Design/Lighting
Gonzalo has been a member of Teatro de los Andes
since 1992. He is an Actor, Artistic Director, Director/
Teacher in workshops and Set and Prop Designer.
FIDEL LUCAS ACHIRICO
Actor/Musical Direction/Lighting Design
Lucas was invited to take part in a theatre workshop
in 1992 with the Teatro de los Andes that lead to an
invitation to join the group. He is an Actor and Musical
Director for all the shows produced by Theatro de los
Andes.
HELDER RIVERA
Music
Helder was invited to join Teatro de los Andes in 2012.
Helder is an actor-musician in Hamlet de los Andes,
being part of the group on the road to Chile Brazil,
Spain, UK, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Venezuela,
Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.
ELAINE PADILHA GUIMARAES
Interpreter/Translator
Elaine is a qualified interpreter and teacher of English,
German, Spanish and Portuguese languages. In 2008
Elaine translated the text of Theatre of the Andes’
Odyssey to the German language. Elaine translated
the technical and advertising material for Hamlet,de los
Andes into English and German, and accompanies the
group on tour as interpreter.
C R E AT I V E C R E D I TS
Teatro de los Andes Collective Creation and
Staging
Helder Rivera Music
Diego Aramburo Text
Diego Aramburo and Teatro de los Andes
Collective Direction
Giulia D’Amico Directing Assistant and Dramaturgy
Gonzalo Callejas Design and Realisation of Sets
Gonzalo Callejas and Lucas Achirico Lighting
Design
Alice Guimaraes and Danuta Zarzyka Costumes
Lucas Achirico Musical Direction
Bernardo Rosado Sound Technician
Teatro de los Andes Production
Giampaolo Nalli General Coordination
Daniel Platt and Elaine Padilha Guimaraes
Translation into English
Marian Suau Surtitle Operator
CAST
Lucas Achirico
Gonzalo Callejas
Alice Guimaraes
A C K N O W L E D G E M E N TS
Lola Joulin, Cesar Torrico, Antonio Santoro, the
students of the theatre workshop (July 2011), Tristan
Platt, Manuel Estrada, Pierre Ferrier, Johnny Anaya,
Orlando Oliva, Don Eulogio, Carmen Romero and
FITAM 2012, Nelly Arenas, Doña Teofila, David
Arze, Antoine De Labriolle, Claudia Villegas, Marcela
Oviedo.
A special thanks to Maria Callejas Guimaraes and
Naomi Achirico Zarzyka for having accepted, once
again, and due to the long production process, a
fragmentary relationship with their sometimes absent
parents.
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