Hamlet Presented by New York Circus Project

New York Circus Project (NYCP) and Director Sam Landa will bring their production of Hamlet to Chicago from August 15th to 18th at the Studebaker Theater. Chicago is the last of the touring production's three major city stops in addition to Philadelphia and Washington DC. Sam Landa, Founding Artistic Director of NYCP, is a circus arts virtuoso. At age 15, Sam moved to Montreal to attend the world-renowned L’Ecole Nationale de Cirque (ENC). After graduating from ENC, Sam attended Columbia University. While attending university worked as a consultant on acrobatic and aerial elements for Broadway and Disney productions. Since its inception, NYCP has produced shows for various NYC-based organizations, including the NYC Department of Transportation’s Open Streets and the New York Botanical Garden. Now, NYCP is excited to embark on its debut tour with Hamlet. Following a successful pre-professional run at Columbia University, this interpretation of Hamlet upends what audiences expect of a Shakespearean play by blending theater with dance and circus arts to arrive at a thoroughly unique iteration of a well-known tragedy. Hamlet’s delirium materializes in an explosive group acrobatic tableau, Ophelia’s life flashes before her eyes during a last-breath contortion number in a water filled basin, and the ghost of Hamlet’s father’s famous monologue is reimagined as a solo aerial number, where the performer physically revolves around young Hamlet.

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