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Taming of the crew: the bard meets Cunard in RSC cruise deal

by Harriet Sherwood Arts, Culture Correspondent

Royal Shakespeare Company signs three-year agreement for productions onboard Queen Mary 2 More than 400 years after Hamlet was performed by a ship's crew anchored off west Africa in the first known production of a Shakespeare play outside the British Isles, the bard is once again taking to the high seas. In evidence that all the world is indeed a stage, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has signed a three-year deal…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:24pm on January 13, 2022