Hamlet To Be Performed In The 'jungle'?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3429428/Hamlet-staged-The-Jungle-camp-touring-Globe-company.html

This should go down a bomb, as most of the migrants can't speak modern day English, so I don't know what they are going to make of Elizabethan English?

[EcclesCake]

How lovely, a good move to be inclusive and diverse.

[andy-hughes]

From my experience, Elizabethan English is something you tune into, and start to translate as you hear it - rather like understanding a foreign language better than you speak it yourself.

I think any culture and distraction is a good thing - heaven knows these people have precious little else in the way of entertainment.

Those that don't understand what is going on may well have people around who can interpret for them, and the action scenes are good in any language!

[TWR]

Amazed.

[douglas9401]

Pompous, overblown and patronising.

[andy-hughes]

douglas - //Pompous, overblown and patronising. //

That's no way to talk about the world's greatest playwright!

[whiskeryron]

what about Punch & Judy what is more english ?

[ichkeria]

Calais, I think it should be noted, is geographically more or less behind (the) Arras :-)

[andy-hughes]

whiskeyron - //what about Punch & Judy what is more english ?//

I think you'll find its roots are Italian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy

[Baldric]

Having seen the photos of them onstage in the OP Link I doubt that even the action scenes would be any good, also you tune in to Elizabethan English because ( I assume ) your Native Language is English, an advantage not shared by those in the Camp.

[whiskeryron]

// Hamlet To Be Performed In The 'jungle'?// Where's the prophet in that ?

[retrocop]

How very cultural.A bit of Henry should thicken the sinews whilst they try once more into the breach.These animals are trashing lorries and throwing bricks at children in coaches after the matin has finished!

[sp1814]

Fingers crossed they get David Hare to play Hamlet and Marianne Jean-Baptist to play Ophelia.

Absolute perfection for the neocons.

[stuey]

How about a performance of "The Pilgrim's Progress"?

[mikey4444]

I'm with Eccles here !

You don't have to attend if you don't want to AOG !

[jourdain2]

Just as long as they don't do 'The Taming of the Shrew'!

[Bazile]

Its' a ploy .

After listening and watching the Bard , a lot will think that it's just not for them to live in this country and being forced to sit through daily performances as a condition to getting benefits

[retrocop]

Well they have had the tear gas and baton rounds slung at them and they haven't shifted so might as well suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune. Poor old hard pressed Gendarmerie must need resupply.

[sandyRoe]

King Lear would have been better. The scenes on the blasted heath would have struck a chord with many of the refugees.

[stuey]

Tis pity that the great spot of blight bestowed upon faire Calais couldst not be outed.

[mikey4444]

Stuey...this is the best I can find !

"The winter coming on and sickness growing
Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais"