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Shakespeare in the West Bank: British troupe savour 'Elizabethan' crowd by Harriet Sherwood

Raucous audience at Bethlehem refugee camp see closing performance of The Tempest by Jericho House theatreIt was, said the director, an Elizabethan atmosphere. People came and went throughout the play. There was chatter and laughter and crying babies. One boy kicked a football, another swung from an overhead metal bar near the stage.Yet this was not the Globe theatre on the south bank of the Thames, but an open-air p…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM on September 9, 2011

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