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Act V

When you've got an hour (e.g., on a drive), have a listen to This American Life episode 218 which was re-run on the show a couple weeks back. 

...over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act—Act V—of Hamlet. Shakespeare may seem like an odd match for a group of hardened criminals, but Jack found that they understand the Bard on a level that most of us might not. It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers living out the consequences.

It's a really interesting and entertaining listen.

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