Globe To Globe Hamlet
Theatre
Description
Description
“The chemistry between the actors is palpable, and the work of director Dominic Dromgoole is perfect.” Buenos Aires Herald, Argentina
On 23 April 2014 the Globe opened its most ambitious tour yet: a two-year tour of Hamlet that will visit every single country on earth. Sixteen extraordinary men and women will travel by boat, train, jeep, tall ship, bus and aeroplane across the seven continents, performing in a huge range of unique and atmospheric venues – from village squares to national theatres, from palaces to beaches.
The production is a fresh, pared-down version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of deferred revenge. The company of twelve actors and four stage managers will use a completely portable set to stage a Hamlet that celebrates all the exuberance and invention of Shakespeare’s language in a brisk two hours and forty minutes.
About Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, has not succeeded his father as King. On the throne is his uncle Claudius, who married Queen Gertrude immediately, upon the death of her husband, the first King Hamlet. At midnight the ghost of the dead King appears to his son on the battlements of the castle and commands revenge.
Hamlet, unsure at first, simulates madness and asks for a performance of a play with a plot much like his father’s murder, so that he can see how the King responds. Claudius, deeply alarmed, plans to send Hamlet to England. However, before Hamlet leaves, he kills Polonius (the father of Ophelia, the woman Hamlet loves) who is hiding behind a curtain in Gertrude’s room.
Two messengers conduct Hamlet towards the voyage to England, bearing letters that order his death when he arrives. Ophelia’s brother Laertes, enraged by the news of his father’s death, finds that his sister is helplessly mad, and swears to kill Hamlet. Ophelia drowns herself, and Hamlet returns to Denmark in time for her burial. Later, at a fencing match where Laertes seeks to stab Hamlet with a poisoned rapier, both men are wounded. Queen Gertrude drinks, in error, the poisoned wine Claudius has prepared for Hamlet. Laertes and Gertrude die; Hamlet, after killing Claudius, collapses in the arms of his friend Horatio and dies.
“Globe to Globe Hamlet holds a mirror up to the nature of theatre in Shakespeare’s lifetime – as in, no special effects, no elaborate set, just simple storytelling at its best. In short, it lets his true genius shine through.” Toronto Star, Canada
Design：Jonathan Fensom
Music Arrangement：Bill Barclay
Original Music：Laura Forrest-Hay
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Theatre Yearbook 2015 – Dance, Drama and Xiqu" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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$495
$795
Indoor
Non-local