Tag: Shakespeare’s Globe

14th April 2016

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Shakespeare at the Vatican: family, mercy and a red hat

How could the British embassy to the Holy See contribute to the Shakespeare 400th anniversary this year? There is an extraordinary programme of official events organised under the Shakespeare Lives banner, but the Vatican was not an obvious element. And although the Royal Shakespeare Company had performed Shakespearean excerpts before Pope Paul VI in 1964, the […]

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27th May 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka

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by Laura Davies

Former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

To be or not to be… Shakespeare’s Globe comes to Colombo

On 14 May, Shakespeare’s Globe came to Colombo. Sri Lanka was their 96th stopover in their Globe to Globe challenge to perform Hamlet in every single country in the world. Here in Sri Lanka, they performed twice, a free matinee for 20 schools from across Colombo, and an evening production. Junior prefects from the British […]

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