A year into this extraordinary theatrical ensemble, Hamlet Globe to Globe hits Lagos on 4th & 5th
March 2015, with performances scheduled for the Muson Centre and St. Saviours
School, Ikoyi.
The Hamlet Globe to Globe tour opened at Shakespeare’s
Globe, London, on 23 April 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.
This unprecedented theatrical adventure is scheduled to tour every single
country on earth over 2 years.
The first African performance was at Algeria's
National Theatre. Hamlet Globe to
Globe has since performed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the
beautiful St Louis Cathedral in Carthage, Tunisia, at Ethiopia's National
Theatre in Addis Ababa, as a free outdoor performance in Sudan - making its way
through East Africa, from Somliland to Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda.
The cast and crew have
travelled by boat, sleeper trains, jeeps, tall ships, buses and aeroplanes,
across 7 continents to perform over 2 dozen parts on a stripped-down booth
stage. The company of twelve actors and four stage managers has used 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.
The tour
has attracted rave reviews internationally, including from The New York Times which
describes it as “a production that prizes efficiency, clarity, accessibility
and above all energy.”
This event is
supported by British Council, The
Wheatbaker Hotel, Muson Centre, The St. Saviours School, Ikoyi and media
partners; Thisday, Bella Naija, Smooth
FM, Cool FM, Ebonylife TV, Channels TV, The Guardian, Ndani TV & Levitate
Buy your ticket now @ www.afritickets.com and Muson Centre
Date: Wednesday, 4th March 2015
Show Times: 2pm & 6:30pm
Venue: The Muson Centre, 8/9 Marina, Onikan, Lagos
Tickets: N10,000 per show
For further information,
visit www.shakespeareglobe.com or contact Bunmi Taiwo or Nkechi Obidi at R&B-PR on +2348098016994 or
email bunmi@rb-pr.com; nkechi@rb-pr.com
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