All the world’s a stage! Shakespeare’s Globe theatre will embark on a two-year world tour that aims to take the bard’s tragic play ‘Hamlet’ to Image may be NSFW.
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On 23 April 2014 – the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – the theatre is to commence its journey to stage the Bard of Avon’s Hamlet in 205 nations in the world, across the seven continents.
The ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’, directed by the Globe’s Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole, will be a completely unprecedented theatrical adventure, the company said in a statement. The tour will bring one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays to some of the most inaccessible places in the world, it said.
“Hamlet is the most all encompassing of Shakespeare’s plays. Everyone, young or old can today find an immediate identification with its characters, their pains and their interrogations,” said Theatre director Peter Brook.
“To take Hamlet in its original language around the world is a bold and dynamic project. It can bring a rich journey of discovery to new audiences everywhere,” Brook said. “In 1608, only five years after it was written, Hamlet was performed on a boat – the Red Dragon – off the coast of Yemen. Just ten years later it was being toured extensively all over Northern Europe,” said Dromgoole.
“The spirit of touring, and of communicating stories to fresh ears, was always central to Shakespeare’s work. We couldn’t be happier to be extending that mission even further. “By train, coach, plane and boat we aim to take this wonderful, iconic, multifarious play to as many fresh ears as we possibly can,” he said.
The small-scale production, which toured the UK, Europe a nd the United States in 2011 and 2012, is a fresh version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of deferred revenge that emphasises the play’s gallows humour and celebrates the exuberance and invention of its language.
The tour will finish on 23 April 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
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