The ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’, directed by the Globe’s artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, which organizers consider a completely unprecedented theatrical adventure, will show on Saturday, June 7 at the National Theatre in Tirana.
TIRANA, June 3 – London’s Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will perform in Albania this weekend as part of a global tour of Hamlet marking the 450th birth anniversary of the greatest playwright of all time.
The ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’, directed by the Globe’s artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, which organizers consider a completely unprecedented theatrical adventure, will show on Saturday, June 7 at the Tirana National Theatre just after featuring in Macedonia.
Hervin ȵli, the director of the National Theatre, says the Globe Theatre comes to acquaint the public in Albania with the Shakespearean culture as they will do in every country around the world. It is very interesting that they will arrange everything in a single day and they will use candles for lighting just like in the Shakespearean days when the electric bulb had not been invented.
“In casting our Globe to Globe Hamlet, we have assembled a squad of brilliant actors and intrepid adventurers. With these 12 actors, we have an ensemble who can spin among themselves so many tellings of the play that almost every country will see a slightly different line up of actors and roles,” organizers say.
Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of his genius.
The production is a young, fresh version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of deferred revenge that teases out its latent streak of gallows humour and celebrates the exuberance and invention of its language. Just twelve actors will perform over two dozen parts on a stripped-down wooden stage in a comparatively brisk two hours and forty minutes.
It is the same Globe On Tour production that toured the UK, Europe and the United States in 2011 and 2012, when the New York Times called it “a production that prizes efficiency, clarity, accessibility and above all energy” and the Daily Telegraph praised its “young, unjaded and open-hearted” portrayal of the Danish prince.
Back in 2012, the Albanian Theatre performed at the Globus Theatre part II of Shakespeare’s Henry VI known as the Balkan Trilogy in London’ s Globe to Globe festival.
