| Performance start | 18:00 |
| Ticket price | 250-800 hrn |
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30 May, Friday18:00 / 250-800 hrn.
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10 Jun, Tuesday18:00 / 250-800 hrn.
Performance language - ukrainian
Additional Information - 16+
Duration - 1 hour 40 minutes, no intermission
Genre - Based on true events and Shakespeare's tragedy
First night - March 8, 2023 - Germany, October 19, 2024 - Ukraine
Concept, dramaturgy, direction, scenography - Tamara Trunova
Music - Matthias Kremsreiter
Lighting and video projection - Ruslan Berezovyi
Text work - Maryna Smilyanets
Translation of the play "Hamlet" - Yurii Andrukhovych
A poem is featured in the performance by - Nadiia Krat
Producers - Stas Zhyrkov, Kateryna Hradnova-Savytska
Assistant director - Daryna Topikha
Project manager - Kateryna Ianiuk
In February 2022, rehearsals for the play Hamlet were taking place at the Left Bank Theatre. A poster hung on the theatre’s facade—Hamlet (played by Oleksandr Sokolov) was holding the doors of a Kyiv subway train, perhaps trying to stop time. Soon, the full-scale invasion would halt the play’s rehearsals.
Ha*l*t is a play about a play that never happened.
Directed by Tamara Trunova, based on a script developed in collaboration with the actors involved, it reflects on what we have lost and what we’ve lost of ourselves.
Ha*l*t is a Hamlet from which “me” has been torn out, cut away. From the German, it means a complete stop.
Originally, Ha*l*t was created as a co-production between the Left Bank Theatre (Kyiv) and the RADAR OST Festival (2023, Deutsches Theater Berlin, curated by Birgit Lengers) with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Christine Dissmann (director of Hotel Continental). The production premiered as the opening performance of RADAR OST 2023 and later appeared at festivals including Piatra Neamț (Romania), Kierunek Wschód VII (Poland), and Fokus Ukraine — Europäisches Theaterfestival 777 TAGE ДНІВ DAYS (Germany).
In 2024, adapted for Ukrainian audiences, the production premiered in Ukraine—at home, where its journey first began.
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