Shakespeare's Globe is to put on a performance of Hamlet to refugees at the so-called 'Jungle' camp at Calais.

The theatre company will put on the show as part of the Globe to Globe world tour, which has also seen performances at refugee camps in Jordan, Djibouti and the Cameroon.

Last year the company performed for 200 Syrian refugees in the Zaatari camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border.

The production of Hamlet will be staged in partnership with the Good Chance theatre company, which is based at the Calais camp.

Some 6,000 people are living in unsanitary and dangerous conditions at the camp on France's north coast as European nations struggle to deal with the refugee and migrant crisis.

Dominic Dromgoole, the Globe's artistic director, said: "This performance will be yet another wonderful example of this ground-breaking tour's ability to reach displaced people across the world.

"It's a privilege that our Hamlet company have been able to perform in the Calais Jungle and our thanks go to Good Chance for enabling this."