They have been reacting to the rapidly changing economic map, politicalĪgendas, and cultural discourses in the new millennium. Actors in Europe have also been seeking outĮxtreme locations and extreme situations to relocate Hamlet for contemporaryĪudiences: abandoned factories, rusting shipyards, insane asylums, and even “grat-ing”, but Jones says: at the end of the day we can look back and say: «NobodyĬan take this away from us✱. New audiences: the riders of the New York subway. Guerrilla theatre actors (Fred Jones and Paul Marino) have taken an extremeĪpproach to bring Shakespeare, not only Romeo and Juliet but also Hamlet to Was okay they were just performing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Was calmed by a younger fellow passenger who informed her that everything A consternated elderly lady about to board the train Man-hattan were surprised by men rolling around on the floor of the subway car Hamlet’s search for his “part” in the new millennium Europe continues.Ī Sunday afternoon in August 2011: passengers on the N and R line to The protagonist, are being provided with new signification, political and theatrical, as
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