The wonder of Shakespeare's words is lost in translation

The show "Looking for an Actor to play Hamlet" is a workshop and experimental performance of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, with the Massoud Delbekhah as director, it’s opened at from July 4 in the Chaharsoo Hall, City Theater Complex.

 

With the workshop approach of this show, Massoud Delbekhah said: "The purpose of this show was to hold a performance based on Hamlet's monologue to be or not to be, which was formed after the call by Honar Farda Institute, and due to the welcome and passions of the students, who were theater students, it continued and after a year, it’s been on stage at Chahrsoo Hall.”

He believed that "Looking for an Actor to play Hamlet" is a reflection of the group's rehearsals and also parts of play "Hamlet", he continued: "I tried to point out the difficulty of theater work, especially staging classic plays like "Hamlet in this experience with young generation .Therefore, in the first act, I not only showed the characters that the students play, but also showed their concerns."

He announced plans for a professional, creative and theatrical performance of "Hamlet" with a group of veteran theater actors and talented young artistes for next year.

He emphasized that he always tries to bring out the potential of his students: “It would have been easier if I had cast based on the play, but when you have a class with different people with different levels of experience in acting; You automatically consider the role for the participants according to their talent, potential, and strength, and in fact, you adapt the show to what they have."

He has performed parts of this workshop work in English, he explained: "During my years in America, I was fortunate to perform some of Shakespeare's plays in the original language. It was there that I noticed the rhythm, the wonder of words and the harmony of form and content in the language of this playwright. So, I tried to experience the performance of a scene in the original language in this workshop, and fortunately, the audience communicate with this part of the show and understand its meaning, although many of them do not know English perfectly.”