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SilentJ:
So far I have read Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth only.
I have seen a movie version of both as well.
At my local Rennaisance Festival I got to see a total of 4 people put on Othello.
I also got the pleasure of seeing A Comedy of Errors at the Shakespeare Theater in DC.

and I'm loving every minute of it.  :lol:

Oh, for anyone who loves Shakespeare, find yourself the DVD of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.  This is a group of three men who perform all but like 3 of Shakespeare's plays in like an hour or so.  They perform all if the King plays at the same time, as a football game.  They compress all of his comedies into a single play.  They do Hamlet with a sock playing the part of the ghost of Hamlet's dad.  They do the play twice as fast. Then they do it backwards.  It is absolutely AMAZING.  One of my favorites is when they perform Titus Andronicus as a cooking show.  They also do Othello as a rap song.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301126/ <- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare... ABRIDGED!


These guys also did the Bible abridged  :laugh:

Firefly:
Oooh, I saw a live version of Shakespeare Abridged and holy craaap, I almost wet myself several times throughout it. Totally hilarious.

*Guy comes running on stage in a blond wig and bulky dress, splashes water on his face, screams, and falls down dead*

Hamlet is officially my favourite Shakespeare play (man, he was cracked out when writing it, I love it! :-D Hmm, looks like there's a bit of a lull here...PIRATES, BRING ON THE FUCKING PIRATES!!! No one will question the plotholes if I throw in PIRATES! *My impression of Gertrude* Fuck yeah, I saw that bitch drown. Whaddya mean 'why didn't I do anything?' I just did my fuckin' hair and this is a nice fuckin' dress. Piss off. - teehee, do excuse the profuse swearing)

SilentJ:
Firefly: yeah I know what you're talking about.  That was Reduced Shakespeare Company.  The character was Ophelia in Hamlet.

"Wait, before you go on, what's the next scene with Ophelia?"
"There are no more scenes with Ophelia."
"No man, I'm up for it!"
"There aren't any.  That's all Shakespeare wrote."
"What happens to her?"
"She drowns."
"......okay, cool!"

which is when he runs offstage, comes back out with a glass of water, interrupts a soliloquoy..."here we go!" *splashes water in face* "AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" *falls to ground, gets up, bows, walks offstage*

Firefly:
You sound as though I didn't know who the character was. Sillypants, of course it was Ophelia :-P

Yays for ridiculous behaviours!

SilentJ:
heehee.

"Didn't he also write one called like Chernobyl Kinsman?"
"That's Two Noble Kinsmen."
"Cher... Chernobyl Kinsmen..."

 :lol:

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