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
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.
Begins December 4
Directed by Scott Wentworth
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Royal Shakespeare Company
11 December 2014 – 7 March 2015
Directed by Phillip Breen
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Rowland Lacy loves Rose Oatley but it’s not going to work out. An aristocrat and a middle class girl aren’t supposed to marry, not least because her parents really don’t approve.
Following his acclaimed RSC debut, The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), Phillip Breen returns to direct Dekker’s glorious city comedy of class, conflict and cobblers in love.
Royal Shakespeare Company
15 January – 7 March 2015
Directed by Angus Jackson
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Tom Morton-Smith’s new play takes us to the heart of the Manhattan Project, exploring tensions between the scientific advances that shape our understanding of the fabric of the universe, and the justification of their use during wartime, revealing the personal cost of making history.
Directed by Angus Jackson whose recent credits include King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre.