Hamlet The Show - Globe to Globe Hamlet

The Hamlet Globe to Globe tour opened at Shakespeare’s Globe on 23 April 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. The Globe’s most ambitious tour yet, the two-year tour of Hamlet 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.

Shakespeare’s Globe will bring its Globe to Globe Hamlet tour to the Αncient Τheatre of Kourion in Cyprus on 5 July 2014 at 8:30pm. Kourion was a city that endured from antiquity until the early Middle Ages and Hamlet will be performed in Kourion’s Greco-Roman theatre, against the stunning backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea for one performance only!

ABOUT THE SHOW

‘A production that prizes efficiency, clarity, accessibility and above all energy’
New York Times

Learning of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet comes home to find his uncle married to his mother and installed on the Danish throne. At night, the ghost of the old king demands that Hamlet avenge his ‘foul and most unnatural murder’. Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of his genius.

The production is a young, fresh version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of deferred revenge that teases out its latent streak of gallows humour and celebrates the exuberance and invention of its language. Just twelve actors will perform over two dozen parts on a stripped-down wooden stage in a comparatively brisk two hours and forty minutes. It is the same Globe On Tour production that toured the UK, Europe and the United States in 2011 and 2012, when the New York Times called it “a production that prizes efficiency, clarity, accessibility and above all energy” and the Daily Telegraph praised its “young, unjaded and open-hearted” portrayal of the Danish prince.

'A wonderfully engrossing production' ****
The Independent

‘Good things often come in small packages, and so it is with Dominic Dromgoole’s speedy, pared-down Hamlet.’
The Guardian, 2011

‘A slick and engaging production cleverly tuned to outdoor touring locations.’
Financial Times, 2011

CREATIVE TEAM:
Dominic Dromgoole / Director
Jonatha Fensom / Designer
Bill Barclay / Composer, Music Director
Laura Forrest-Hay / Additional Original Music

CAST:
Ladi Emeruwa & Naeem Hayat / Hamlet
John Dougall & Keith Bartlett & Rawiri Paratene / Claudius & Polonius
Miranda Foster / Gertrude
Phoebe Fildes & Jennifer Leong & Amanda Wilkin / Ophelia, Gertrude, Horatio, Rosencrantz
Tom Lawrence & Matthew Romain & Beruce Khan / Horatio, Rosencrantz, Laertes, Guildenstern
/ Claudius & Polonius

INFORMATION & TICKETS:
Website: globetoglobe.shakespearesglobe.com

For more information:
Holly Blaxill ([email protected]), Marketing and Press Officer at Shakespeare’s Globe

Yvonne Georgiadou ([email protected]), Artistic Director of Pharos Arts Foundation

Box Office: Open as of Tuesday 1 July. Tel. (+357) 77 777 040 & online at http://shop.tickethour.com/
Tickets will also be sold at the door on the day of the performance (an hour before the show starts)

Tickets will also be sold at the door on the day of the performance (an hour before the show starts)

Ticket Price: Adults: 15 Euros / Concessions (Students / Senior citizens): 10 Euros