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Hamlet, Globe to globe : 193,000 miles, 197 countries, one play, Dominic Dromgoole

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Hamlet

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Dominic Dromgoole

Globe to globe : 193,000 miles, 197 countries, one play

Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They set their stage in sprawling refugee camps, grand Baltic palaces and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine. Hamlet: Globe to Globe tells the story of this unprecedented theatrical adventure, in which Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare's universal drama, and asks how a 400-year-old tragedy can bring the world closer together

Who's there? -- Honouring the upbeat -- Setting out through the Baltics -- Words and walls in Mitteleuropa -- Madness in Mexico City -- Polonius by the Red Sea -- God on a Pacific Island -- Murder and the rice fields -- Soliloquies in the Andes -- News from England -- Wittenberg in the desert -- The world in revolt -- Fighting for eggshells and revenge -- Mission control -- Friendship on the road -- Caesar in Zaatari -- Embattled theatre near the Great Rift Valley -- The rest is silence