In the last month the Globe to Globe Hamlet company have performed in the Pacific Islands including playing outdoors in the world’s smallest country Nauru.
It’s the thing every traveller dreads - your luggage has been delayed. For the performances in Kiribati and Micronesia the stage management team had to improvise props whilst the cast had to perform in their own clothes.
Props included using locally sourced Halloween skulls and snooker cues as swords. Despite not being ideal our team proved that it is Shakespeare’s words and the way they are performed that really make him great as this review of the show in Micronesia.
The team were finally reunited with their trunks of props and costumes in Taiwan before they travelled to South East Asia. There was a huge rush at th performance in Cambodia where over 1000 local students ran into the theatre once the doors opened! The company’s final stop was in Bangladesh, Dhaka where the tickets sold out in 30 minutes.
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