Shakespearebomb

Or 'Shakesbomb' for short.

I would love to remount some of the Shakespeare scenes I performed (and had the pleasure of watching) in large public areas--in a sort of flash mob fashion. How awesome would it be to fake a funeral procession through 3rd Street headed by a wailing mourner--only to have it interrupted by a limping hunchback who shouts "Stay you that bear the corse and set it down!"

The biggest difficulty for me in putting this together is finding time to REHEARSE with whoever wants to do these scenes, and finding a way to announce them, and then bookend them. The scenes themselves will be SUUUPER fun, and a great chance to explore performing Shakespeare in a 'natural' setting. Groundlings n' all. Hell, why not record it and use it for the next AntiApathy?

Thus far I'm looking at--

• Richard III Act 1 Scene 2 (As mentioned)

• Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Scene 1 "Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?"

• The Tempest Act 3 Scene 1 "There be some sports are painful, and their labor Delight in them sets off..."

• Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 (The motherflipping BALCONY SCENE, NYUGGAAZ)

• Measure for Measure Act 3 Scene 1 "Death be a fearful thing/And shamed life a hateful."

Snapplecakes? SNAPPLECAKES. I'm re-reading Richard the third right now, just to get a better sense of it. MAN how awesome would it be to hock a casket through Santa Monica and perform that effing scene? Yeah, I know.

Dak