Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Production has staged Hamlet across Lagos. It started at the Agip Hall, Muson Centre in Lagos recently. The day started with a press conference at The Love Garden of the MUSON Centre, with local and international press keen to get a glimpse of Nigeria’s very own, Ladi Emeruwa, who in the shared role of Hamlet, later thrilled fans alongside an impressive international cast and crew of 17.
Joke Silver and one of the stage actors
The tour continued on Thursday, 5 March 2015, with an abridged performance at St. Saviours School, Ikoyi, Emeruwa’s alma mater. The Hamlet Globe to Globe tour opened at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, on 23 April 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. This unprecedented theatrical adventure is scheduled to tour every country on earth in two years.
Directed by the Globe’s Artistic Director, Dominic Dromgoole, the first African performance was at Algeria’s National Theatre. Hamlet Globe to Globe has since performed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the beautiful St. Louis Cathedral in Carthage, Tunisia; at Ethiopia’s National Theatre in Addis Ababa, as a free outdoor performance in Sudan and now in Lagos.
This event in Lagos was supported by British Council, The Wheatbaker Hotel, Muson Centre, The St. Saviours School, Ikoyi, and other partners.
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