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Hamlet
The Royal ShakespeareTheatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
3/5
SET in some Caribbean state where voodoo mixes easily with modern military dictatorship, Simon Goodwin’s production of Hamlet is set far from the gloom of Denmark’s Elsinore.
Moving at a rate of knots, this trimmed-down version of Shakespeare’s longest and arguably darkest play runs for just over three hours and is full of colour and percussive music.
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