Shakespearean actors traveled to Calais to perform Hamlet for hundreds of refugees

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Christopher Miller
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Actors from Shakespeare's Globe performed Hamlet in the Calais refugee camp known as "the jungle" on Wednesday, reciting the lines of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays for more than 300 people under gloomy skies.

The Calais camp is home to about 6,000 people who have fled war, poverty and repression, coming to Europe in search of a better life.

The performance is part of the Globe to Globe tour which has set out to perform Hamlet in every country on earth in celebration of the 450th anniversary of the playwright's birth. The tour is scheduled to finish at the Globe Theatre in London in April this year.

These are some of the images that Getty photographer Dan Kitwood captured during Wednesday's performance.

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