By Ian Ortega
On 23 April 2014 – the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – Shakespeare’s Globe embarked upon a two-year global tour of Hamlet to every country in the world. The ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’, directed by the Globe’s Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole, is a completely unprecedented theatrical adventure.
On the 4th of February, The Uganda National Cultural Centre will be the host for Hamlet in Uganda. Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Tickets available at the National Theatre box office. Tel: 0414 254567 Ticket Prices: UGX30,000 Adults , UGX15,000 Students (with an ID card) and under-18s.
Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe and Director of Hamlet said:
‘Globe to Globe Hamlet was created with the aim of performing Hamlet to as many people as possible, in as diverse a range of places as possible. The central principle of the tour is that Shakespeare can entertain and speak to anyone, no matter where they are on earth; and that no country or people are not better off for the lively presence of Hamlet.’
Globe to Globe Hamlet has been performed in over 70 countries across the Americas, Europe and Africa to more than 55,000 people, with over 1/3 of the whole tour now complete. January 2015 has seen Hamlet travel to Africa, after a show en-route in Portugal. The first African performance of the tour was at Algeria’s National Theatre, with other January highlights including the incredible Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the beautiful St Louis Cathedral in Carthage, Tunisia, and Ethiopia’s National Theatre in Addis Ababa. February 2015 will see Hamlet continue its journey around East Africa, with performances in Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania.