6 Months to Go!
So far Hamlet has been performed in over 135 countries, to more than 100,000 people and travelled over 100,000 miles. The tour was granted UNESCO patronage for its engagement with local communities and its promotion of cultural education.
Our journey has taken us across northern Europe, North, Central and South America, we then steered East to travel across Africa before making our way to Australasia, the Pacific and Asia. We strive to offer the performance free of charge for local audiences where possible.
· Hamlet was performed for free in Bhutan, Nepal, South Korea and Japan (August - October 2015), in schools and venues in the Pacific Island states of Tuvalu, Samoa, Nauru, Tonga, Kiribati, Micronesia and Palau (June-July 2015), Laos (July 2015), Indonesia (May 2015), Benin, Togo, Sao Tome & Principe, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (March 2015), Rwanda, Burundi (February 2015), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti (January 2015) Bolivia and Chile (November 2014), St. Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Grenada (September 2014), Cuba and Dominican Republic (August 2014).
· In Somaliland, our Hamlet Company became the first foreign company to stage a full play in 23 years
· In Sudan, Hamlet was performed outdoors to a similar audience of 3000 at the National Theatre in Khartoum.
· In Mexico, Hamlet was performed for 3000 people in front of Yucatán Cathedral, the oldest cathedral on mainland America, built the year before Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
Additionally, we presented free performances for local school children and students in Myanmar and Brunei (August 2015), Cambodia (July 2015), Sri Lanka and Malaysia (May 2015), Nigeria (March 2015), Tanzania (February 2015), Belize (August 2014).
Each country provides unique experiences and fresh challenges. Transporting our set from place to place, setting up in completely different venues as quickly as possible, and ensuring that we spread the word wide enough about the production that as many people as possible can see our play in that region are just some of the daily tests that we face.
Without your support, we wouldn’t have been able to get to as many countries and do as many free performances. With just over six months to go, and still some of the most challenging countries to reach (including parts of Africa we haven’t been able to travel to before because of the Ebola endemic) we need your help more than ever.
Sponsoring a mile from as little as £5 will continue to help us reach even more audiences across the world.
