Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama of Garth Drabinsky, the Broadway impresario--with a capital I--responsible for such shows as Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Show Boat, has taken a turn worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. The first-act curtain fell last August, when Drabinsky was suspended from Livent, the Toronto-based company he had founded. There he had pioneered a new business model, creating a company that both owned theaters and developed the shows that filled them in New York City and across North America...
...three characters that emerge between play-episodes are just as humorous, if also as two-dimensional, as cartoon characters. The players call each other by their real names--Erik, Will and Waka ("real" is relative on and off the stage)--and portray Shakespearean actors in the same way that Bugs Bunny portrays a rabbit: They play caricatures, not characters. The "actors" are shy, ironic, angst-ridden, occasionally obnoxious and grossly human. Their closest Shakespearean analogues are the Rude Mechanics in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...perfected the double entendre, would have appreciated the sight gags and lowbrow humor that comprise so much of this play. Traditional gags and constant physical comedy alone make this play funny, but rich word-play quickens and deepens the humor. The writers who created The Compleat Works are clearly Shakespearean scholars. "That which we call a nose, by any other name, would still smell," philosophizes one actor in the ten-minute version of Romeo and Juliet at the play's inception. Allusions to contemporary pop culture not only demonstrate Shakespeare's relevance, but allow the audience to play along with...
Burke's trip to England included a visit to the recently renovated Globe Theatre to see the Shakespearean tragedy Julius Caesar...
Burke's trip to England included a visit to the recently renovated Globe Theatre to see the Shakespearean tragedy Julius Caesar. And she said the the excursion to the play with her three children was "quite an adventure...