About 300 refugees watch Hamlet – ‘a play that speaks to the human spirit in its darkest moments’ – in biting cold The enthusiastic whooping and cheering nearly drowned out Bernardo’s opening line “Who’s there? – but five minutes in,a particularly unlikely matinee audience was engrossed.
Under a steely grey sky, in bitter cold weather, or actors from Shakespeare’s Globe performed Hamlet on Wednesday to about 300 refugees in Calais at the ad hoc camp known as the Jungle.
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Source: theguardian.com