I just wanted to take a moment to shine a light on one of my favorite pieces of Shakespearean fashion: the (in)famous pumpkin pants!
As if it wasn't already hard enough to take pumpkin pants seriously...
....PANSIED SLOPS.
The Stratford 2018 Season... in 3 Panels!
It's that time of year again... The Stratford Festival's opening is just around the corner and it's time to take a look at their playbill for the season. Here we go!
First up we have a classic musical that needs no introduction.
Then some Shakespeare! This production of The Tempest has a female Prospero, so... ignore the beard.
Then it's everybody's favorite sci-fi/comedy/horror rock musical!
Then a stage adaptation of a classic book.
The following is possibly the production I'm most excited about. By all accounts this is going to be an extremely cinematic and visually stunning production of an underrated Shakespeare play.
Let's lighten things up with some Oscar Wilde. No, not the one with the handbag. It's the one with all the letters.
I knew nothing about the following Italian play, which is getting a new translation at Stratford this season. It seems to be half rollicking riotous comedy and half cynical dark comedy. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
This season's production of Julius Caesar features some great gender-neutral casting, with Caesar and Cassius, among others, being played by female actors. Very excited about this.
DISCLAIMER. The following two plays are NEW plays, which means I don't have any idea what they will actually be like. What I do know, though, is the source material they are based upon. And so I present....
...and, with a similarly literary bent, we have...
One more Shakespeare! This one looks like it's going to be quite the production, with male/female Antipholi and Dromios.
Finally we have this entry from what I call "The American Canon of Miserable Families Being Miserable", by Eugene O'Neill.
SOUNDS LIKE FUN!
But in all seriously, I'm very much looking forward to this season at the Stratford Festival. Maybe I'll see you there!
Shakespeare: The Legacy
Well, that about wraps up Shakespeare Month! Let's just take a quick look at Shakespeare's incredibly prolonged afterlife:
I'll just end Shakespeare Month with these random thoughts:
Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.
There is no right or wrong way to perform or consume Shakespeare.
You're allowed not to like Shakespeare.
If you think Shakespeare is difficult to understand, or boring, that doesn't make you stupid or uncultured.
Shakespeare's plays aren't necessarily perfect or universal...
...unless you want them to be.
Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.
That's it for Shakespeare Month! I'm taking next week off but will be back here on May 8 with all new Shakespeare comics for you!
Will Will Survive
It's SHAKESPEARE'S 454th BIRTHDAY! To celebrate, here's Shakespeare singing his own personal disco anthem:
Happy birthday, Will. Keep on keepin' on.
Shakespeare: The End
Shakespeare Month is winding down, as is our boy Will's theatrical career...
Did you think this was the end of Shakespeare Month? Well, THINK AGAIN! Tune in on Monday (yes, Monday, not Tuesday) for a special Shakespearean birthday comic!
Shakespeare: The Theatres
Shakespeare Month at Good Tickle Brain continues with a look at two of the physical spaces that defined so much of Shakespeare's career.
Tune in on Thursday to see the end of Shakespeare... or is it the beginning????
Shakespeare: The Playwright
SHAKESPEARE MONTH continues! When we last left Will, he was stuck in the Lost Years, but now he's made it to London and is ready to start writing plays!
Tune in next week to learn a bit more about WHERE all those plays were performed!
Shakespeare: The Lost Years
It's SHAKESPEARE MONTH here at Good Tickle Brain! Today we take a look at one of the most exciting period in Shakespeare's life: that seven-year gap when we have no documentation as to his activites and can thus imagine him doing ANYTHING.
I kind of love it that we don't know exactly what Shakespeare was doing during this time. It's nice to have a few unanswered questions.
Tune in Thursday to see Shakespeare's triumphant emergence in London!