HAMLETMACHINE
Company:
ZIWEI 子维
HAMLETMACHINE is a performance by ZIWEI 子维, inspired by Heiner Müller's cult 1977 play Die Hamletmaschine. It begins before you arrive and doesn't quite end when you leave.
A single body moves through the wreckage of the twentieth century and the noise of the present one: Coke cans, scrolling feeds, ghostly archives, a machine generating language in the room. The performer speaks — in English, in German, in Mandarin, in something that might be Cantonese — and moves through silences, screams, and some vulgar (by which I mean Shakespearean) jokes. History flickers. Images flood the space. The body pushes through until it can't, and then continues anyway. It treats Müller's text not as a script but as a machine — and runs it again, now, in a time just as broken and just as strange as his.
Fifty minutes. One performer. A lot of Coca-Cola.
Content Advisory: loud sound, flashing imagery, strobe lighting, nudity.
Concept, Choreography, Performance, Projection: ZIWEI 子维
AI & Technical Development: danzhe chen
Sound: Cece Zhang
Dramaturgy: Jane Su, Ruby Wang
Stage Manager: Minara Ling
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