Hamlet (2013)

In The Wooster Groups HAMLET Shakespeares classic tragedy is reimagined by mixing and repurposing Richard Burtons 1964 Broadway production directed by John Gielgud The Burton production was recorded in live performance from 17 camera angles and edited into a film that was shown as a special event for only two days in nearly 1000 movie houses across the US The idea of bringing a live theater experience to thousands of simultaneous viewers in different cities was trumpeted as a new form called Theatrofilm made possible through the miracle of Electronovision The Wooster Group attempts to reverse the process reconstructing a hypothetical theater piece from the fragmentary evidence of the edited film We channel the ghost of the legendary 1964 performance descending into a kind of madness intentionally replacing our own spirit with the spirit of another