The following articles have been tagged with "Hamlet":
Lifestyle: 4 Dec 12
With one of the world’s favourite Christmas tales set to hit the stage in Stockholm this week, The Local talks to the cast and crew to find out more about why Swedes love Dickens, the importance of English, and Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Lifestyle: 5 Nov 12
Stockholm's English-speakers can revel in some home culture as Hamlet returns to the city in November. Performed as a one-man show, The Local spoke to its only actor, Roger Westberg.
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Business & Money: 4 Jun 12
Two masked and armed thieves performed a dramatic robbery on a moored ferry in southern Sweden on Sunday night, firing shots and stealing a six-figure sum from the currency exchange office before escaping on a motorcycle.
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Lifestyle: 5 Oct 11
English-speakers in Stockholm and Uppsala looking for a slice of home language culture should leave a day or two free in October for some skillful, crazy fun - and some nudity - when two celebrated performance groups take to the stage.
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Travel: 19 Sep 11
With an eight months ski season, incredible facilities and spectacular shows, Sölden – a popular skiing resort in eastern Austria – has something for everyone, as travel writer and ski-beginner Malin Nyberg discovers.
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Society: 1 Apr 11
An isolated community of “Vikings” has been found in one of the most remote parts of Europe, living on the fringes of civilisation near Sweden's Sarek national park and established in response to ‘feminist dogma’.
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Society: 1 Jan 11
Swedish actor Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia Östling are feared dead in a fire, as a relative discovered the couple's house burned to the ground yesterday morning.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jan 10
What’s on in Sweden: Borderless clowns in Stockholm, pampered pooches in Gothenburg and the English National Symphony Orchestra does ABBA in Malmö.
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Travel: 27 Jun 08
The curious tourist can find many fine attractions along Skåne’s coastline – the region is home to a varied collection of charming towns and cities, impressive nature reserves, beautiful and artistically-designed parks, and sites of historical interest, writes Matt O’Leary.
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Travel: 9 Jun 08
Located just a short train journey from Malmö, Alannah Eames strongly recommends a visit to Copenhagen.
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Travel: 13 Feb 08
Alec Forss heads to the Arctic Circle to take in Sami culture and reindeer games at the world’s coldest winter market in Jokkmokk.
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Society: 10 Jan 08
Kenneth Branagh is coming to Sweden this summer to begin filming on a BBC series based on Henning Mankell's crime novels.
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Lifestyle: 24 Jul 06
Marlowe and Shakespeare may never have met, but a Swedish opera, opening for the first time this week, speculates that the two English dramatists were lovers.
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National: 4 Jun 04
The bathtub death splits experts, gunshots are confirmed as being loud and the 'Bride of Christ' has her day in court. Dark times for the pastor.
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