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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
I suspect everyone else's seen this by now, but somehow I always contrived to miss it - out of town when it was in, or busy, and never found the time to see it in London. For those who have missed it, it's supposedly all 37 plays performed in 97 minutes - and for those who say, "What about the sonnets and those weird poems?" they do get mentioned. Of course, they cheat - the Histories turn into an American Football game, there's a one size fits all comedy and some of the tragedies I suspect are conveniently ignored. There's a reasonable amount of National Theatre of Brent style malapropism and disastrousness, and (gak) Audience Participation, but it was a fun couple of hours. The second half is largely devoted to Hamlet, which is of course ripe for messing around with - as say Tom Stoppard has two or three times already.
I suspect everyone else's seen this by now, but somehow I always contrived to miss it - out of town when it was in, or busy, and never found the time to see it in London. For those who have missed it, it's supposedly all 37 plays performed in 97 minutes - and for those who say, "What about the sonnets and those weird poems?" they do get mentioned. Of course, they cheat - the Histories turn into an American Football game, there's a one size fits all comedy and some of the tragedies I suspect are conveniently ignored. There's a reasonable amount of National Theatre of Brent style malapropism and disastrousness, and (gak) Audience Participation, but it was a fun couple of hours. The second half is largely devoted to Hamlet, which is of course ripe for messing around with - as say Tom Stoppard has two or three times already.
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