Hamlet – Globe to Globe – Shakespeare’s Globe, London – World Tour
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Bruckhurst
A TWO-YEAR TOUR TO EVER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
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, tragic depth and wild humour, Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of his genius.
Be at the start of a completely unprecedented theatrical adventure and help us launch this two-year worldwide tour of our pared-down, small-scale Hamlet, which will visit all 205 nations on earth.
Royal Shakespeare Company
30 July – 29 November 2014
Directed by Maria Aberg
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Beautiful Vittoria begins an illicit affair, enlisting the help of her brother Flamenio to fool her husband. They soon find themselves snared in a web of corruption, passion and retribution as their pursuit of personal gain reaches an epic and bloody conclusion.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
From 6 August (touring UK and USA)
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Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity.
Its tempestuous poetry shot through with touches of humour and moments of heart-rending simplicity, King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition.
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Blanche McIntyre
[button url=”https://tickets.shakespearesglobe.com/” target=”blank”]Buy Tickets[/button]Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging.
Royal Shakespeare Company
23 September 2014 – 14 March 2015
Directed by Christopher Luscombe
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Set in the Summer of 1914, love and merriment ensue in Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy before the lives of the blissfully unaware lovers are about to be utterly transformed by the war to end all wars.
Royal Shakespeare Company
3 October 2014 – 14 March 2015
Directed by Christopher Luscombe
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Autumn 1918. Shakespeare’s comic romance plays out amidst the brittle high spirits of a post-war house party, as youthful passions run riot, lovers are deceived and happiness is threatened – before peace ultimately wins out.