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Hamlet: Globe to Globe

Taking Shakespeare to Every Country in the World

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Pub Date 20 Apr 2017 | Archive Date 20 Apr 2017


Description

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.

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...


Advance Praise

'Dominic Dromgoole's recounting of the Globe Theatre's exhausting global tour of Hamlet is exhilarating. The playing company's intrepid journey around the world - performing Hamlet's own troubled journey - succeeds in making the familiar unfamiliar and enables in turn a deeply illuminating journey into the play itself.' - James Shapiro, author of 1599 and 1606.
'This is an amazing story about a bold and eye-popping journey. I loved it. Dominic Dromgoole writes about Shakespeare and touring the globe the way he ran The Globe - with passion, insight, relish and irresistible humour.' - Nicholas Hytner, The Artistic Director of London's National Theatre.
'Superb . . . thrillingly entertaining . . . throbs with vigour, honesty and passion' - Daily Telegraph.

'Dominic Dromgoole's recounting of the Globe Theatre's exhausting global tour of Hamlet is exhilarating. The playing company's intrepid journey around the world - performing Hamlet's own troubled...


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ISBN 9781782116905
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