By Heiner Mueller
Directed by Rem Myers
May 17, 2015
Hamletmachine is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller, which premiered in 1977. The nine-page play originated in relation to Müller’s translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The play connects a sequence of monologues, where the protagonist leaves his role and reflects on being an actor. Hamletmachine is presented by Cutting Ball in tandem with the RISK IS THIS series reading Who is Heiner Muller or The End of History by Mark Jackson.
The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015-16 season is made possible in part by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The RHE Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Season Producers John and Paula Gambs, Ken Melrose, and Velia Melrose.
