HAMLET
About the show.
Caborca’s take on Shakespeare’s most celebrated work is performed backwards as a female Hamlet retraces her steps, turning tragic causality on its head. Staging is drawn from Gianni de Lucca’s groundbreaking 1977 comic book adaptation, creating an unsettling physical vocabulary that reflects tension between instability and paralysis, a mark of our increasingly corrupt geopolitics.
2017 January Jersey City Theater Center (Premiere)
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Javier Antonio González
2017 Cast
Michael Barringer • Brooke Bell • Laura Butler Rivera • Jon Froehlich • Anne Gridley • Jorge Luna • Tania Molina • Pelé Sánchez Tormes • Veraalba Santa • David Skeist
Set by Jian Jung
Lights and Projections by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Costumes by Cristina Fitch
Sound by Mark Van Hare
Stage Manager Will Chaloner
Caborca’s Hamlet was developed in residence at Jersey City Theater Center
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
Photo by Marcos Toledo
What People Are Saying
“As a seeker of truth, then, Caborca’s Hamlet is racked with doubt. Here, his crisis of confidence has less to do with the question of whether he is equal to the task. He is, rather, certain that he will succeed and certain that his success will make no difference whatever in a world where the currency of the truth has been devalued. In this way, Hamlet also becomes a metaphor for the post-modern artist, for the seeker after truth.”
— Jessica Rizzo, TheatreForum