Universality of Hamlet cinched touring Globe’s choice

Tom Lawrence (Horatio/Rosencratz/Laertes/Guildenstern) and Amanda Wilkin (Ophelia) at the World Hamlet, Middle Temple Hall in April 2014 (Photo by Helena Miscioscia)

When William Shakespeare first penned the famous quote that begins, “All the world’s a stage…” in the 16th century he would have had no idea that more than 400 years later they would be taken literally with the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s world tour of Hamlet.

The tour, which began on April 23 this year and is slated to hit 205 countries in two years, made its way to Guyana last week.

The Globe Theatre is internationally-renowned and is built very close to the original site of Shakespeare’s theatre in London. It is a direct replica of the