Please, Continue (Hamlet): Shakespeare on the Move

With their unparalleled record for global circulation as international cultural capital, Shakespeare’s plays undoubtedly provide an ideal site for exploring the way in which meanings are produced, circulated and validated in our increasingly diasporic public sphere. In this essay I focus on a very recent artistic response to the ‘mobility turn’ that taps at the same time into the mobility which is intrinsic to the field of performance, and into the ability of Shakespeare as a highly mobile signifier to act as a ‘cultural circuit facilitating motion’, in Stephen Greenblatt’s apposite formulation. "Please, Continue (Hamlet)" is a theatre project in which the cross-cultural transmission and transmissibility of Hamlet become fully embedded in the creative mechanism, engendering an all-pervasive, structural unfixedness that deeply destabilizes conventional notions of textuality and performativity, authorship and cultural authority.