Today I got an email from the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, and read it excitedly. Having recently missed a lecture night on King Lear of theirs, because it was obscenely expensive, I was hoping their next performance would be a little more accessible.
Careful what you wish for.
I decided to create a piece that could travel to these schools and would also be of the highest quality. This led to the current one-hour adaptation of the script with three actors.
It is a thrilling distillation of the play and allows for an intense psychological excavation of Macbeths’ consciousness. It is like placing a spotlight on the essential elements of the story, thereby revealing the essence of the play.
No thanks.
Is that were we went… FOR FREE? =)
“So I have this great idea, right? What if we take something like Shakespeare, right, that’s really long and like really confusing? But we make it much shorter and easier to understand by cutting a bunch out? Wouldn’t that make Shakespeare, like, suck less?”
Why are people so….balls?
On a side note, the (relatively) recent production of King Lear with Stacy Keach was fantastic.
@Julia: Honestly I’m not sure! Is that where we saw The Two Gentlemen of Verona? And was that for free? I remember very vividly the beatnik robbers, and that was awesome.
@Ben: My envy at your having seen Lear on stage consumes me. Great review of the performance!
It was totally free – I think we went to see it more than once even.
On a second note, I just noticed your title… so you are taking a science class!!