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The Phnom Penh Shakespeare Company

Bringing Shakespeare's classic plays to the heart of Cambodia

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About The Company

We bring Shakespeare's timeless stories to life in Phnom Penh's vibrant cultural scene.

Close-up of a Shakespearean script with Cambodian cultural motifs in the background.
Close-up of a Shakespearean script with Cambodian cultural motifs in the background.
Audience members enjoying a sunset performance by the Phnom Penh Shakespeare Company.
Audience members enjoying a sunset performance by the Phnom Penh Shakespeare Company.

What is the Chamber?

To connect communities through the power of Shakespeare’s plays, performed with local passion.

The Chamber Shakespeare Cycle

The Chamber Shakespeare Cycle is William Shakespeare’s –
perhaps the world’s - four greatest tragedies
presented as one complete dramatic cycle.

Hamlet
Actors performing a dramatic scene from a Shakespeare play on an intimate Phnom Penh stage.
Actors performing a dramatic scene from a Shakespeare play on an intimate Phnom Penh stage.

Hamlet shows the tragic mind at
its very conception, naive and inherently innocent,
struggling to comprehend and fulfill the tragic mission laid upon him by the ghost of his father.

A workshop setting with participants engaging in acting exercises inspired by Shakespeare.
A workshop setting with participants engaging in acting exercises inspired by Shakespeare.
A group of diverse actors rehearsing lines outdoors in a vibrant Phnom Penh park.
A group of diverse actors rehearsing lines outdoors in a vibrant Phnom Penh park.
Macbeth

Macbeth becomes everything that Hamlet struggled to fight against.
He is the corruption of himself, defiling everything that

approaches him, everything that sees him, everything that he touches.

Othello has emerged from slavery to find redemption through Desdemona. But after the ‘true friend’ of Horatio and Banquo comes the ‘false friend’ of Iago to plunge Othello into Chaos.

A workshop setting with participants engaging in acting exercises inspired by Shakespeare.
A workshop setting with participants engaging in acting exercises inspired by Shakespeare.
Othello
King Lear

Lear shows the protagonist as an old man, who has survived the trials of his three previous incarnations and possesses their knowledge. He is now ready to withdraw from the stage and desires only peace. But he is
forced once more to fulfill the final tragic apotheosis.

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