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"Hamlet"
Category: Best Implemented Theatre Set Design
The set design for the performance of "Hamlet" represents Hamlet's internal Elsinore, the space of his worldview. In the beginning, it retains the outlines of a world that was once whole, yet exists solely as memory.
At its core is the image of an antique temple, a sign of lost unity. The lower stylobate and the entablature reflected above it form two poles — earth and sky — striving to converge. Between them, ghostly columns of light emerge through the smoke, tracing the remnants of a vanished architecture. Light attempts to restore it and hold the world back from disintegration. The architecture is assembled from weathered, worn planks of a street theater: sacred form exists within transient matter.
As the action unfolds, the cold horizon on the painted canvases appears as the possibility of a path, only to rise and vanish. The familiar world remains above, while Hamlet and the audience descend into a liminal space. By the finale, it becomes simultaneously a space of alienation and shelter — a place where a person hides from a collapsing world, still harboring hope for a connection with it.
Location
3 Kamergersky Lane, Moscow, Russia. A.P. Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.
About the Applicant
Konstantin Solovyov is a theatre designer, multiple laureate and nominee of theatrical awards and festivals. As a set designer, he has worked on the production of over one hundred plays in theatres including the Taganka Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow Youth Theatre (MTUZ), Komedianty Theatre, Baltic House, Stary Dom Theatre, Novokuznetsk Drama Theatre, Nizhny Tagil Drama Theatre, Krasnodar Gorky Drama Theatre, Russian Drama Theatre of Udmurtia, Chelyabinsk Youth Theatre, and Omsk Drama Theatre.
Project Authors
Konstantin Solovyov
Images
Ekaterina Khristova, Konstantin Solovyov
Other participants
A.P. Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. Director: Andrey Goncharov. Playwrights/Adapters: Andrey Goncharov, Nadezhda Tolubeeva. Costume Designer: Marusya Parfenova-Chukhrai. Lighting Designer: Igor Fomin. Video Designer: Mikhail Kuprygin. Composer: Alexey Kirillov. Assistant Director: Nadezhda Tolubeeva. Assistant Stage Director: Olga Roslyakova. Prompter: Tatyana Litvinova.
