mousemaylikecheese
Sir Galahad
Die Strickerin, Aranel
Over a potions text, he pondered, weak and weary
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Post by mousemaylikecheese on Jul 30, 2009 7:50:35 GMT -5
The Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
I award this performance a 3.5 out of 5 stars. (but 5 stars I only give to sensationally wonderful movies).
Would you like to see Othello as a rap? All of Shakespeare's comedies condensed into one hilarious episode summerized by people in Shakespearian clothing, bug headgear, and a large mustache? Titus Andronicus as a Sweeney Todd-esque* cooking show? Romeo & Juliet, Antony & Cleopatra(much condensed) and part of Hamlet performed with a badly-wigged, vomiting heroine? A football game that has to do with Shakespeare? The audience acting out a Freudian analysis of Ophelia's pysche when an Ophelia is chosen from their ranks? It's quite funny. (Although the cooking show idea was disappointing because I was unfamiliar with Titus Andronicus)
(Warning: some innuendo, and there is some prop-humor related to the Nurse's fake(because the company is composed of 3 men) ...chest region)
*Which I haven't seen. But I know it's bloody.
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Post by scarletshadow on Aug 1, 2009 22:42:51 GMT -5
Sounds hilarious! You pretty much nailed Sweeney Todd by the way. I haven't seen it, but you can imagine how a musical about a throat slicing barber who has his victims made into pies goes.
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