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Australian Arts

Pacific Paradise Lost

18 January 2025

9:00 AM

18 January 2025

9:00 AM

Back in the childhoods of the baby boomers everyone seemed to know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 because there was a tremendous fuss about the 400th anniversary of his birth – Richard Burton played Hamlet on Broadway, Christopher Plummer did it at Elsinore for the BBC and Peter O’Toole opened Olivier’s National Theatre as the Prince.

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