Actors perform 'Hamlet' at refugee camp in France

A troupe of Shakespearean actors traveled to a migrant camp in Northern France this week, to perform 'Hamlet’ for a crowd of 300 refugees.

The actors, from London’s Globe Theatre, performed the play on Wednesday at the Calais camp, known as the “jungle” reports Mashable. The camp, located just outside the French port city, is home to approximately 6,000 migrants and refugees.

According to a video released by the BBC, the Globe’s production of Hamlet has been performed in 150 countries, in migrant camps all over the Middle East and Africa.

The performance was part of the Globe to Globe tour, which began in April 2014, with the intention of performing in every country in the world, reports The Guardian. The tour will wrap up in London this April, marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death.

Since many of the spectators in Calais were not fluent in English, copies of the play were handed out in different languages, reports the BBC. Members of the theatre group acknowledged that while the story can be difficult to follow at times, the performance brought light to the overcast and chilly February day.

“It is a great privilege to play for displaced people in Calais,” the Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, told The Guardian. “As a theatre company the only gesture we can offer is this: a show that we hope speaks to the human spirit at its greatest and its darkest moments.”