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The Hamlet Voyage
Coming Summer 2022 to the Bristol Harbour Festival
and the Bridewell Theatre, London
The Hamlet Voyage is a new play about the first written record of a performance of Hamlet, acted by sailors in 1607 off the coast of Sierra Leone for local West African dignitaries, on the first English voyage to reach India.
The play will examine this cross-cultural encounter that took place before England became deeply involved in the Atlantic slave trade, before the age of British imperialism, and before Shakespeare became a global name. Together with the audience, we will imagine how history might have turned out differently and where we go from here.
We will perform on a replica sailing ship, The Matthew, in July 2022, the 415th anniversary of the original Hamlet performance. From there, we will transfer to the Bridewell Theatre in London.
Pics from our staged reading at RADA and R&D workshop at Trinity Community Arts, Bristol
Meet the Team

Kwaku Ankomah
Producer


Consultant Producer


Director

Music Director

Writer

Movement Director

Neuza Pereira Sa
Assistant Director &
Assistant Designer

Lysa Dicks
Social Media Manager

Sophia Staddon
Social Media
Officer

Joseph Bangura
Dramaturge:
Temne Culture

Laurence Publicover
Dramaturge:
Shakespeare & Maritime History

Jiamiao Chen
Researcher
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to all our supporters including
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