To be or not to be!

"Być, albo nie być! To jest pytania!" I just got home from the premier of "Hamlet" at the theatr in Toruń. Here is a picture of the scene where Hamlet is fighting with his mother after he kills Ophelia's father. It was...different, but very enjoyable. Of course I didn't understand any jokes or hit lines, but I knew what was going on thanks to Brit. Lit. last year ;). The play had a sort of Cabaret mix to it. There was this joker looking guy with four...raunchy women, for a lack of a better word, who appeared throughout the play and sang. The joker man appeared in almost every scene...and he gave a sort of creepy, psychotic feel to the play, while the women loosened up the drama, and made it funny. Since today was the premier of the play, I couldn't find any good pictures of the joker with his women, but here is one with half the makeup (joker doesn't have his face), during what I'm guessing is the dress rehearsal.




I went to this play with a writer who is friends with my host mom since they were seven years old. He's a pretty well-known writer in Poland, he was born in Toruń, but now he lives in Bydgoszcz. It was so nice, it felt so...european, haha. I was in a fancy theatre (of course dressed well ;) watching a premier of a Shakespeare play with a famous writer. Anyway, this is the only picture I could find.