AMAR SELIMOVIC AS HAMLET - THE BEST YOUNG ACTOR AWARD AT THE 2005 INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL MESS SARAJEVO

HAMLET - THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR 2005 - MAGAZIN DANI - THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WEEKLY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA


HARIS PASOVIC - PERSON OF THE YEAR 2005 - MAGAZIN DANI

HARIS PASOVIC / MAN OF THE YEAR 2005 - THEATRE - MAX MAGAZINE




Hamlet tour dates
Mostar Summer Festival  – HD Herceg Stjepan Kosača, Mostar 13.07.2006
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana 16.09.2006

Previous Hamlet tour dates
Bosnian Cultural Center Tuzla 22.-24.07.2005
National Theatre Sarajevo 14. i 15.09.2005, 28.-30.10.2005, 27.-29.12.2005
Zagreb Youth Theatre 14.-16.02.2006
Jugoslav Theatre of Drama Belgrade 11. i 12.05.2006
Cultural Center Brčko 14.05.2006.
Bosnian Cultural Center Tuzla 15.05.2006

ECHOES OF VERY SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCES OF HAMLET IN ZAGREB
The performances of HAMLET in the Zagreb Youth Theater (ZKM), in February 2006, within the program of «European Theater at ZKM» attracted a great interest of the public and the media (over 60 stories on this event in the newspapers, magazines and TV programs). Here are some of the highlights:

Novi list
Shakespeare's tragedy as an encounter of civilizations

Dnevni avaz
Actors and actresses conveyed a message of civilization and culture

Slobodna Dalmacija
The place and the time are absolutely irrelevant and what is relevant is the relationship between an individual and the authority. Each authority is surrounded with intrigue, will to gain power, manipulation, and treason – be it at the micro-level (family), or macro-level (sultan’s court). Political games are played everywhere and, instead at the Danish court, Pasovic has placed his Hamlet at the Ottoman court, in a Muslim environment. In the time, when unnecessary animosities between the East and the West, between Christian and Muslim worlds, are being forced upon us, when Western civilization, in its theoretical considerations, arrogantly puts Orient in the position of the Other, such an interpretation is not surprising at all. Without diverting and adapting Shakespeare’s text to the new context (except for adding Turkish titles and greetings), Pasovic has merged very delicately an Oriental culture and an Occidental text, wishing to warn us that between those two worlds there are more similarities than differences… With his youth and his energy, Amar Selimovic was an excellent choice for the main role... Slaven Knezovic has given to his Polonius certain playfulness, interpreting him with dynamism and wit. Damir Markovina, playing a low-key Horatio was also excellent...

Jutarnji list
A firm narrative of a tragedy at the Turkish court... Pasovic transformed King Claudius – played brilliantly by Frano Maskovic – into a sultan and something very interesting happened: Hamlet functions better at the Turkish than at the Danish court...

Nacional
A brilliant production!

Radio 101
The Hamlet-Ophelia-Horatio triangle, besides powerful forces of love among them, carries a tension of unity in tragedy, as well as in a vengeful drive, which gives to the individual revenge a force of generational revolt, both tragic and sacrificial. This force of the urge to put the world back into its joint is best seen in the acting of brilliant Amar Selimovic, an actor whose body literally suffers throughout the performance, ranging from an irritating rush, trough physical pain of someone who is beaten up, to the psycho-physical agony of someone who is a culprit and a righteous in the same time…

Vjesnik
Music is what gives rhythm, atmosphere and soul to this "Hamlet"

Josko Juvancic, legendary Croatian theatre director
The whole production and particularly the cast made a very strong impression on me. Amar Selimovic possesses an incredible acting energy and a brilliant career lies ahead of him...

Oslobodjenje
Pasovic’s "Hamlet" in Zagreb - Amar Selimovic won both public and critics...

Globus
The "European Theater at ZKM" cycle is this seasons’ hit in the theater life of Zagreb... All the three performance of the Sarajevo production of "Hamlet" was sold out…

CNN ON HAMLET
CNN broadcast a 3-minute story on the Sarajevo production of HAMLET, illustrated by several scenes from the production. Director Haris Pasovic, Amar Selimovic who plays Hamlet, and Zana Marjanovic who plays Ophelia, talked to CNN.

CD WITH HAMLET SOUNDTRACK
The musicians from HAMLET – Dino Sukalo (guitar) and Amar Cesljar (percussions, vocal) from Sarajevo, Melih Berse (ney, vocal) from Istanbul and Attila Aksoy (bas, keyboard, and vocal) from Mostar, are recording a CD with the music they perform in HAMLET in the studios in Mostar and Sarajevo. For their improvisations base on classic Turkish themes, these artists received exceptionally good response from audience and critics at the performances shown in Sarajevo and Tuzla as well as recently, when they had visiting performances in Zagreb. The CD will be released in April in the production of NTV Hayat and Space Production.