Hamlet

A raw, unflinching take on Hamlet in a contemporary, unsettling and bloody reinterpretation. Winner of the 2025 Maeterlinck Award for Best Production.

To revisit Hamlet ‘with neither a wealth of means nor grandiloquence’. Christophe Sermet has created a radical adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, prepared with author Caroline Lamarche on the basis of the original English text, whose full-blooded power they retain.

Adrien Drumel plays a feverishly lucid prince, tasked by his father’s ghost with an impossible task: to avenge him without becoming corrupt. On a floating, drifting stage, the theatre looks at itself in a meta device, while the young man relies on the staging to try and delay the fatal outcome. With this cathartic interpretation, Christophe Sermet exposes the mechanisms of power and violence in a raw – and blood-splattered – show of realism that theatre usually seeks to keep at arm’s length. Hamlet stands as a daring production, also worth seeing on its tour of Wallonia.

Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

Season 2025·2026