Dimensions
144 x 220 x 36mm
In the middle of the Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp, Dominic Dromgoole watches from the makeshift wings, as Hamlet delivers his monologue. Four years earlier, Dromgoole, the artistic director of The Globe, came up with an idea. He would take Hamlet to every country on the planet. He would mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by sharing his beloved playwright with the entire world.
Over two full years, Dromgoole and The Globe players toured all seven continents performing the bard's most famous tragedy in sweltering deserts, ice-cold cathedrals and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine.
Hamlet Globe to Globe is an unprecedented theatrical adventure, in which Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare. We see what the Danish prince means to the people of Sudan, the effect of Ophelia on the citizens of Costa Rica and how a sixteenth-century play can touch the lives of Syrian refugees, living in ragged tents, desperate to cross the English channel. We will witness Shakespeare's power to transcend borders, to touch the human heart, and to truly bring the world closer together.
