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Freya Sif Hestnes




visual arts
Interiors
Skin
Signal Error
To the Reader
Completely Indefinable Objects
No Spill
Memorial for 800
Watch me Eat
Lost Item Service
Sleeper


scenography + costumes
Hex
Moby Dick
Jo mere vi er sammen
 Mit Arbejde
Brøgger
Lille Eyolf
Bisse
Hollywood Dolls
Hamletmachine
Great Grand Mother
Fjerde til venstre
The Book of Thel


independent theatre works
Den Anden
Traumecentret
So Far So Good
A Moment of Silence
There is a Noise
Hotel Corona
Halbal
Tanmaurkrevyen
Cirkelfærd
That Light Inside
Night Just Before the Forests
Memory Machine
Live camera visuals


info / contact
Freya Sif Hestnes
Hamletmachine (2014)
Scenography

Norwegian Theatre Academy



Hamlemachine is like a rock that can be placed in any landscape or place of mind. Heiner Müller wrote it in 1977 while translating Shakespeare into German and calls it ‘the shrunken head of Hamlet’. It reflects on east European history, the role of the intellectual in a torn society, revolution, personal traumata….

Text by Heiner Müller
Directed by: Ann Kristin Rommen
Scenography: Freya Sif Hestnes
Light: Loriana Casagrande
Costumes: Johanna Dahlbäck
Sound: Mwansa Mulenga
Video design: Elizabet Damyanova
Production and stage manager: Mari Lassen-Bergsten Kamsvaag
Performed by: Tobias Shaw, Marina Popović, Victoria Fredrikke Schou Røising, Nikoline Spjelkavik, Desiree Bøgh Vaksdal, Katrine Leth, Viola Tømte