HAMLET: To be or to be!

The dilemma these days is not whether to be or not to be, but to Be and how to Be, why should we Be, despite of everything, in whose behalf and how to Be. Since not being means tranquillity, silence, oneness with the infinity of time. To be today means to be thrown into a “common civilization”, where suffering, the loneliness, the betrayal, the insanity, the misery have one common name: global progress. There are no more castles, kings, court labyrinths: the global market offers trade with anything and everything, even with Hamlet’s blood which, by the way, comes very cheap…
With the completely conquered space of humanity the new cataclysm is called abundance, of images, sounds, information… Babylon is among us: the inflation of images prevents us from recognizing each other, hearing each other, understanding each other – blind and deaf we walk through the fabulous and enormous human progress? We remain silent? We don’t know why we were? We don’t know who we were? Instead of light, we see fluorescent reflections of the private hell of inexistence, instead of love we see human flesh, rippled by the cannibalistic autobiography of Terra Ludens.
Several centuries ago, that damned Danish Prince, hidden in a nut crust, saw the present day and went insane out of pain, out of despair – he is here, beside us, at the only place where a little bit of the buried truth still exist – the Theatre. And just like Virgil, with an angry and melancholic enthusiasm he will lead us through what we, with a queer and inconceivable persistence, call reality. Maybe he is here to reveal to us the alchemic formula of how not Be and to peek into the crystals of the cosmos and of the twinkling stars of all lost, hidden, forgotten souls – past, present, future, for all the times. Our Hamlet is the scream of the theatre – do we hear it? Dejan Projkovski