Fighting for theatre

摘要

Almost the only piece of scenery in Yuri Lyubimov's production of "Hamlet", in rep at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow from 1971, was an immense black roughly woven curtain bunched with dangling threads. It moved back, forth and sideways of its own accord, sometimes enfolding the actors, sometimes smothering them. And it made a special beeline for Hamlet himself, stalking and attacking him, so that he was forced either to avoid it, placate it, or fight it off.