Thursday 29 October 2015

All the world's a stage: the Globe's Hamlet plays in a Jordanian refugee camp

Guardian photojournalist Sarah Lee travelled to Jordan with the Globe Theatre’s touring Hamlet production. Aiming to visit every country in the world to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, it has visited 136 countries out of a possible 196. The only country the company could not get permission and insurance to visit was Syria, so they performed in the Zaatari refugee camp on the Jordanian border to an entirely Syrian audience

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