HAMLET’S OPHELIA

Performance with a scarf, branches, and thorns. 2012.

Part of the Art Megdan Festival in the Sofia University.

By putting a male artist and fictional character in the situation of female suffering, Hamlet’s Ophelia attempts to dissect and challenge structures of power that were designed by men and benefiting men. Using texts and motives from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where the titular character causes much pain and suffering to the woman he purports to love, the performance presents the mentally tormented and physically tortured state that is the result of the patriarchal system.