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    Hamlet, Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
    Hamlet, Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
    Hamlet, Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
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    Hamlet, Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play

    By Dominic Dromgoole and Michael Gallagher

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    A New York Times Notable Book: “A loving testament to the enduring ability of Shakespeare’s play to connect in myriad ways across countries and cultures” (Pop Matters).
     
    For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the Globe Theatre undertook an unparalleled journey: to take Hamlet to every country on the planet, to share this beloved play with the entire world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, and in Hamlet: Globe to Globe, Dromgoole takes readers along with him.
     
    From performing in sweltering deserts, ice-cold cathedrals, and heaving marketplaces, and despite food poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and political upheaval in Ukraine, the Globe’s players pushed on. Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare—what the Danish prince means to the people of Sudan, the effect of Ophelia on the citizens of Costa Rica, and how a sixteenth-century play can touch the lives of Syrian refugees. And thanks to this incredible undertaking, Dromgoole uses the world to glean new insight into this masterpiece, exploring the play’s history, its meaning, and its pleasures.
     
    “The Shakespearean equivalent of Bourdain’s TV series, Parts Unknown. . . . [Dromgoole’s] aesthetic principle, or unprincipled aesthetic, makes him a natural tour guide for global Shakespeare . . . A comic epic.” —The Washington Post
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 26, 2017
    ISBN9780802189684
    Hamlet, Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
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    Dominic Dromgoole

    Dominic Dromgoole was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London from 2006 to 2016. He is the author of The Full Room, and Will and Me, which won the inaugural Sheridan Morley prize, and Hamlet Globe to Globe which was a New York Times Book of the Year. He regularly contributes to the Sunday Times and other publications.

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      Dominic Dromgoole was director of The Globe Theatre up until his retirement in 2016, which marked the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. In 2014, The Globe marked the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of The Bard’s birth by staging all thirty-seven of his plays in in different languages, featuring theatre companies from around the world. This proved to be a runaway success, securing full houses and almost unanimous critical acclaim. To top this, Dromgoole and colleagues decided to mark the run up to the celebrations in 2016 by taking ‘Hamlet’ to every country in the world in the course of two years. Right from the start, this plan encountered problems. Visas proved difficult (and expensive), and at any one time each member of the company would have one passport with them with the ‘Mission Control’ team back at the Globe held second (or even third) versions with which to chase up outstanding visas and other documentation for future destinations. There were, of course, considerable difficulties with regard to some countries. The inclusion in their itinerary of North Korea drew considerable negative media attention, though other destinations (Syria for example) would also prove problematical Domgoole did not spend the whole two years travelling with the ‘Hamlet’ company himself. After all, he still had a full programme of performances at The Globe itself to oversee. He did fly out frequently to catch up with them, and to help with the promotion of the programme, and was, consequently, present at many inspired and inspiring performances, and witnessed bizarre stagings and receptions.At the most basic level, this book recounts their experiences. It does, however, offer the reader so much more as well. Dromgoole dissects the play and offers intriguing analyses of the character of Hamlet himself, while also flagging up Shakespeare’s mastery, not just with language but with the mystique of stagecraft. There have been many critical analyses of ‘Hamlet” – exegesis of what is possibly Shakespeare’s most challenging play has become an industry of its own. Dromgoole, however, steals a march on many of them because of his own theatrical background, and in particular, his long association with The Globe. Who has a better insight into the theatricality of the play?He does not stop there, however. As the company makes its way around the world, Dromgoole presents a brief history of women taking on the role of ‘Hamlet’, which provides fascinating background to his account of the company’s performance in Saudi Arabia which was billed as the first occasion in which men and women would act together in a production in that country. Similarly, his description of the performance in Pnomh Penh is accompanied by a potted history of the damage wrought across the country by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. Indeed, each chapter proves similarly informative, with intriguing insights bringing the progress of the worldwide tour to life. A very enjoyable and informative book, that provides interesting new persepctives on ‘Hamlet’ as a play.

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