Pru Scales enacts a bit of French classical drama and her husband, Timothy West, does a bit of Shakespeare’s “Henry II” in the world’s oldest, unrestored theater in Drottningholm, the Royal country retreat in Sweden:

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks,
and humor’d thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”

– Shakespeare, (from Richard II, spoken by King Richard) recited by Timothy West, Great Canal Journeys, season 4, episode 2