Blue Apple Theatre is an award-winning inclusive theatre company based in Winchester, England. It was founded in 2005 by Jane Jessop to pioneer the inclusion of actors with intellectual disabilities on mainstream stages. In May 2012, six Blue Apple actors made history by touring a ground-breaking re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Hamlet around the South of England. They were the first actors with Down Syndrome to perform the play professionally.in 2016 the company made history again with 5 performers, four of whom have Down's syndrome performing scenes from Shakespeare on stage in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London..