Shakespeare's Globe casts its own artistic director as Hamlet
Michelle Terry in lead male role, as theatre pursues her pledge for democratic, gender-blind castingThe first experiment in democratic casting by Shakespeare's Globe has led to its artistic director, Michelle Terry, taking the role of Hamlet and, in As You Like It, a role normally played by an elderly man.Terry announced her first season as artistic director at the London open-air playhouse in January with the eye-ca…