DOMINIC DROMGOOLE:

Yes, it's challenges that we faced when we did this festival a couple of years ago. We had a lot of hot issues to handle. We had a lot of objections to us bringing a lot of the different countries.

There was one group of people that objected to us bringing Israel. Another group of people objected to us bringing Palestine. And we were determined that we would have both of those countries within our festival.

And it's that spirit of inclusion, rather than exclusion, that we're following with this. We don't want to sort of start saying, you qualify for Shakespeare, you qualify for "Hamlet," you don't, because we don't feel we have the right to do that. I think that every country in the world, every group of people in the world has an equal right to "Hamlet."

And I think "Hamlet" can be of equal benefit for all of them. So there will be challenges, but, you know, we like challenges. You can't be put off by those things. You have got to be inspired by those things.