Fri + Sat, Mar 13 + 14 | 7 PM | Directing Studio
Sat, Mar 14 | 4 PM | Directing Studio
A pre-historic site of relics filled with objects: a Lenin bust, a Samai oil lamp, a faded photo from Vietnamese childhood, a pair of Chinese earrings, a crown, a skull with an axe. A group of four archaeologists enters this ruin of history. Or is it? Is it, perhaps, a family archive of the dead? As excavation turns into performance, they become a trio of theater makers, joined by the ghost of Ophelia, and begin to examine a machine that constantly propels them forward yet traps them inside (r)evolving history.
Part theater, part installation, Hamletmachine #2026 is co-devised by Jane Su ’26, Diliara Sadykova ’26, Saumya Shinde ’26, Coco Zhang ’26, and Hung Ha ’26. It invites you into a history of media, bookended by its past and future, and thus into a history of us as human beings. The devisers dare to create a #2026 version of Heiner Müller’s timeless Hamletmachine in our age—the human age: the age of documentation and representation, of endless recording, of the self watching itself being watched.
Preliminary Creative Credits:
Conception, Direction & Video: Jane Su ’26
Performers: Diliara Sadykova ’26, Saumya Shinde ’26, Coco Zhang ’26, Hung Ha ’26
Stage Management: Quin Repetto ’28, Patrice Moriarty ’28
Dramaturgy: Lyla Butler ’28, Ziwei Chen, Ruby Wang
Scenic & Props: Leo Yihan Wang ’27
Lighting: Bennett Ptak ’28, Abdiel Perde ’28
Costume: Diliara Sadykova ’26
Music: Coco Zhang ’26
Movement: Ziwei Chen
Sound: Ziwei Chen, Jane Su ’26
Mentorship: Anya Klepikov, Jorge Cousineau
