Hamletmachine

Brown Theatre’s production of Müller’s Hamletmachine is an exploration into a young generation’s attempt to stimulate social change while confronted by the conformity of consumerist culture.

Written in 1977, Hamletmachine revisits the Western Canon’s representation of the intellectual faced with revolutionary change. Here, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is seen as a man at the threshold of two distinct eras: The movement between Ice Age and Heat Death, between the failure of real existing socialism and the accession of capitalism.

In the year 2008, what marks our own transition as the Bush presidency comes to an end, when the ruins of Müller’s Europe have become the ruins of the World Trade Center?