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...Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...more like cartoon characters than anything. It is overtly hilarious, and like a cartoon, the play organizes its humor into episodic bursts. Each "play" (like Romeo and Juliet) or group of plays (like the Comedies) is distinctly hilarious and could easily stand on its own as a short skit. The Titus Andronicus cooking show, the Othello rap, and the Histories football game were each side-splittingly funny...
...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...
...thing I remember most was a Saturday Night Live skit," Dukakis said at the event, which was part of the Institute of Politics' Summer-in-Boston program. "They had [Dana] Carvey doing this fabulous impression of Bush, and they pan to Jon Lovitz--playing me--and he says 'How could I be losing to this...