When we first came up with the idea, we briefly considered the idea of omitting certain countries from our itinerary on the basis of their human rights records. There have already been calls for us to boycott specific places, and I can only imagine that this issue will rear its head again from time to time. But we quickly realised that “every country in the world” really had to mean “every country in the world”. Any policy of selection or exclusion would be false to the spirit of the tour, which is about a passionately held and genuine belief that presenting Shakespeare to as many people as possible in as diverse a range of places as possible can only be a good thing. […continued]

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