this might be taking that language thing a little too far...

[kaigou]

from Artisphere:

By Any Other Name : An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon
Washington Shakespeare Company

Sunday, February 27, 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre

The BBC is creating a five part documentary about language and how humans communicate called Planet World. Washington Shakespeare Company's (WSC) By Any Other Name will be filmed live for the documentary series. As part of the evening, world-renowned writer/actor Stephen Fry will perform a Klingon role in a scene from Hamlet.

The evening will begin with an introduction by Marc Okrand, creator of the Klingon language.

Comments

[pocketmouse]

I'm so confused, because right now the set in the Black Box is for Juno and the Paycock, which means the set (which looks like the interior of a tenement building) is in the middle and the audience is on both sides, and it's in no way set up for Klingons and Hamlet. Is it actually a staged reading? Or is the date wrong?

[kaigou]

I haven't the faintest. I got the link from my sister. From the site, it sounds like it's just a one-evening thing, possibly a very informal kind of thing. I've seen other productions where it's an informal reading done on the set of a different play -- the most bizarre had to be a reading for Night Mother done on a stage set for Anything Goes -- so it seems likely there'll be a few jokes about any disconnect between setting and reading, but otherwise it'll be ignored.

I could be completely wrong about that, though. Dunno.

[pocketmouse]

They did it as a full play a couple months ago, so it must be something like that, but still -- it's a horrible setup for any play, and especially bad for anything being recorded.