Hamlet, mise-en-scène: EXTRA TROUBLE–Jack Smith in Frankfurt

Mark von Schlegell

• Other Authors Sylvère Lotringer (Contributor), Laura Preston (Contributor), Juliane Rebentisch (Contributor), Sophie von Olfers (Editor), Sophie von Olfers (Editor), Birte Löschenkohl (Contributor)
• Title

  Hamlet, mise-en-scène: EXTRA TROUBLE–Jack Smith in Frankfurt

• Date 2015
• ISBN 3956790677
• Publisher Berlin: Sternberg Press
• Description 288 p; 11 x 8.5 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017)
• Summary

  The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène presented at Portikus, along with recently restored as well as never-published stills, drawings, and writings by American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970–73).
  Hamlet, mise-en-scène, directed by Mark von Schlegell, was an adaptation that retold Shakespeare's most abused tragedy while channeling the ghost of Jack Smith. The two-night rendition of Hamlet was performed by members of Städelschule's Pure Fiction seminar, presented here alongside a rare selection of works by Smith, both from private collections and from the Jack Smith Archive.
  Contributors:
  Sylvère Lotringer, Birte Löschenkohl, Sophie von Olfers, Laura Preston, Juliane Rebentisch, Mark von Schlegell, et al.

• Tags Art, Drama and Performance studies, Performance