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?

[stuey]

That city, like many others, has a very interesting history. This is not the first time that an encampment has been nestled outside the "City Walls".

[mikey4444]

Indeed it hasn't Stuey, something that most people seem to forget.

[retrocop]

When I die I will have Calais and Philip inscribed on on my heart!! Bloody Mary I can't believe I said that!!

[-Talbot-]

Aren't they suffering enough?

[mikey4444]

Well done Retro !

[naomi24]

That'll confirm what they already know. The people in the west are bonkers!

[TTG]

I see the bbc are wheeling out the usual sympathy gatherers.

[anotheoldgit]

It's time that the French did their bit, I am sure a little French ooh la la, something like the Folies Bergeres would draw the crowds a little better.

[ichkeria]

My goodness here I am agreeing with you again AOG
But as a matter of fact, it is an intriguing thought, and I am not sure that inability to speak English matters a great deal. It'll be the spectacle, novelty etc.
"The play's the thing ..." tho' I doubt it will catch many consciences of many kings or others.

[sandyRoe]

During WW2 a leading French theatre put on a version of Sophocles' Antigone in Paris. It tells of people standing up to tyranny and the consequences for themselves of their actions.
That would strike a chord with the refugees too.

[whiskeryron]

I would suggest a wonderful double act to entertain the crowd would be Bill & Ben ( Dave & Cleggie)

[-Talbot-]

The refugees/migrants are standing up to tyranny, sandy?

[sandyRoe]

Maybe some tried and then fled to seek sanctuary when they saw what they'd brought down on themselves.