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Following Shackleton to Antarctica to make ‘69° S.’

‘69° S.’ envisions the explorer’s trek

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 04, 2012

In “69˚S. (The Shackleton Project),’’ the New York-based Phantom Limb Company combines theater, dance, photography, film, an original score, live musicians, and 4-foot-tall marionettes operated by puppeteers on stilts to re-create the 1914 Antarctic expedition in which Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and he led his entire crew to safety. The production comes to ArtsEmerson Feb. 7-12.

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