Event Dime

HAMLETMACHINE by ZIWEI 子维

When:

July 11, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Where:

3AM Theatre, 920 35th Ave., Astoria, NY, 11106, United States

Source:

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HAMLETMACHINE is a performance by ZIWEI 子维, inspired by Heiner Müller’s cult 1977 play Die Hamletmaschine. It begins before you arrive and doesn’t quite end when you leave. A single body moves through the wreckage of the twentieth century and the noise of the present one: Coke cans, scrolling feeds, ghostly archives, a machine generating language in the room. The performer speaks — in English, in German, in Mandarin, in something that might be Cantonese — and moves through silences, screams, and