Hamlet came to a local stage two Fridays ago, brought by the Shakespeare’s Globe which is on a two-year travelling world tour commemorating the playwright’s 450th birth anniversary; a treat for Guyana, or so I thought.
Hamlet is a long play. The Globe players fit into just over three hours, a play that is typically four to five hours in length and the audience at the National Cultural Centre could not have been happier.
They also managed to bring it into 2014 without butchering the context and