28,000 spectators, extra shows and an audience that enjoyed. After two months is with a smile and a tear summer performance Hømlet Closed in the Shakespeare theater in Diever. But for director Jack Nieborg there is no time to enjoy. He is already working on next year’s new theater performance.
“We celebrated a good party last night, because a busy period is over,” Nieborg looks back. “But it is always a bit double when a show stops. Then it’s gone, it’s no longer there.”
For years, the Shakespeare theater has been taking full tribues in August and September with a rendition of one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Well, Shakespeare is the basis, Nieborg pours a creative sauce over it. “That is why it is exciting every year to see how the audience reacts to it,” says the director. “In Hømlet Have we done it differently in different places than in the original. In the original, for example, a very long story is told to the actors about how to play. We have changed that in a story about the audience should look at us. “
In addition, the main character was played by a woman and the statement ‘To be not to be’ was only heard at the end of the performance. “Those are exciting interventions and that is a bit of a risk.”
At the end of the last performance, it is traditionally announced what the presentation of next year will be. That is during the 80th anniversary of the Shakespeare theater As you like it. Nieborg: “This is one of the most popular pieces that has been performed in Diever. Next year it will be for the seventh time. I myself have already directed it in 2006.”
Nieborg was already writing for the new play one day after the farewell show. “A cool comedy about love. We are going to laugh loudly about serious things,” the director informs the veil. “To people who are looking for love and others who are fleeing before. And they all meet in the forest.”
And even though it is the seventh time that he is being performed, the public does not have to fear a repetition. “I am feeding by the present, always try to place the pieces in the current time image. The story and the text come from the book, but I make a performance for the people of today.”
While Nieborg is busy writing, rehearsal is already being rehearsed. The next theater piece, comedy De Strong Will, can be seen in March next year. This time not a piece by Shakespeare, but a play about Shakespeare. Especially for the eighty -year anniversary of the theater.
“Writing a new piece and in the meantime rehearsing for a different story, that goes well together. As long as it is not in the same phase, I can combine it. In this case is The strong will In the meantime almost finished. “
Who can’t wait for The strong willdon’t have to fear. This fall, the pieces will be in the Globetheater Midsummer Night Dream and Romeo and Julia played. Reprises, shows that have already been performed in recent years.