OMELETTEMACHINE is a highly physical show that will transport you to the bloody, nightmarish world of Mike, your favourite butcher! Mike will guide you on a journey through his personal 'Teatro della Carne' to unpack his role in the family business: ‘Hamlet & Sons Butchers - meating your expectations since 1601’.
OMELETTEMACHINE is a Bouffon style theatre piece, loosely inspired by Hamlet and Hamletmachine. Using a grotesque and clowning performance style, this show explores the perpetuation of violence in family-related trauma. A parody of Hamlet himself, our protagonist Mike is stuck in a never-ending cycle of torture and butchery as he addresses his customers (the audience) who have come to their family butcher to purchase pieces of meat. At the same time, his father's ghost, Mike’s torturer, is a persistent presence in the air that keeps watch over his naughty and disappointing son. Through gory and comedic egg-splattering, Mike reveals layers of himself to the audience until the boundaries between the performer, the bouffon and the character become so blurred that the only thing left to do is to uncover them all. OMELETTEMACHINE uses different dramaturgical layers to explore a semi-autobiographical narrative that aims to deconstruct family trauma, by butchering one of the most famous plays of all time: Hamlet.
OMELETTEMACHINE is not suitable for vegans.
Created by Lecoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, OMELETTEMACHINE has been created with the support of RADA and Bloomsbury Festival and it was also presented at the Coronet Theatre in July 2022. Tommaso is a London-based Italian actor and theatre-maker. He graduated from the École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris in 2017 and has completed an MA in Theatre Laboratory at RADA in 2022. He most recently devised for and performed in UNCHAIN ME by Dreamthinkspeak as part of Brighton Festival. He has also devised for Dinner (2022) and WE SHOULDN’T BE HERE (2021) by Simona Gonella. He played the King in Exit the King by Ionesco directed by Sinéad Rushe (2021) and Torvald Helmer in A Doll’s House by Ibsen, directed by Linda Miller (2021).
VAULT FESTIVAL 2023
14th – 17th March 2023 | 8pm Buy
hereCreated & performed by Tommaso Giacomin
Devised with Anita Pomario
Lighting Design by Beril Yavuz
Set & Costume Design by Tommaso Giacomin
Produced by Heather Ralph
With the support of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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