What lies 725 miles north of Stockholm, is thirty feet high, contains 15,000 tons of ice and snow, and seats 1,000 people? The Ice Globe, an all ice-and-snow theater modeled after Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London and rebuilt every winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden. This year, the Bard’s Hamlet will be performed at the Ice Globe in Sami, a language spoken by over 85,000 indigenous people in the Scandinavian arctic and northern Russia. The Sami cast will perform a shortened version of the play. As Rolf Degerlund, Ice Globe manager, told Reuters, "At minus 38 it is impossible to stand outside for four hours."
