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Title: Much Ado About Macbeth
Author: Randy McCharles
Narrator: Harold Squire
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-18-16
Publisher: Tyche Books
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Paranormal
Publisher's Summary:
When drama teacher Paul Samson decides to put on a high school production of Macbeth, he forgets that it isn't just the Scottish play, it is the cursed play. And Paul soon learns just how cursed. After grappling with his principal, the PTA, his family, and his students, he must contend with witches, ghosts, and skeletons from his past.
The show is destined from the outset to end badly, but no matter how desperate or dangerous circumstances become, Paul cannot cancel the play. Theater has but one rule and one rule only: The show must go on.
Members Reviews:
A pleasant diversion
This book is a light and amusing read even as it touches on real issues such as balancing work and family and high school politics. Anyone who likes theater, Shakespeare, or has ever been in high school might enjoy reading about the struggles of an earnest drama teacher trying to engage his students in staging The Scottish Play despite the opposition of an overzealous PTA and the curses of three inept witches.
It's always a treat to find an author who is clever and funny and can tell an engaging story without resorting to graphic material.
Much Ado About Macbeth steals the show!
A short (spoiler-free) summary: Paul Samsonâs life is on autopilot. His family is growing apart, and his job teaching theatre is perhaps becoming a bit stale. Enter the Bardâs Play, a curse, FOUR witches, a ghost or twoâand a Dairy Queen. Samson must enlist the help of friends new and survive the curse and stop the PTAâs gorgon lady (donât ask; just read), because, as the motto of theatre goes: the show must go on!
The three things that impressed me the most/hooked me:
I. As funny as it sounds to be hooked by this, the layout was very clever. Like Macb-th (itâs been a while since Iâve read the Scottish Play, admittedly), the book is divided into acts and scenes. No chapters and part xy and z, but Act One, Scene One: âTitle Hereâ, etc.
II. The characters were compelling. The main character, Paul Samson, was one I could sympathize with when things start going to Hell. But my FAVORITE characters are, undoubtedly, the Weird Sisters. They steal the show with all their Dairy Queen scenes. I laughed out loud quite a few times at their attempts to curse the Bardâs Play.
III. McCharlesâs humor. Much Ado About Macbeth should be rated H for Hilarious. Thatâs the tone of the whole piece. Sure, thereâs drama (literally) and some hints at heartache, but the tone is lighthearted and silly in the best possible sense of the word.
Now for the drawbacks, and they are forgiven for such wonderful writing on the whole:
I. The start to this book was a little slow for my taste (could just be me getting used to the style.) But the farther I got in, the more I was hooked!
II. It ended a little abruptly. I wouldâve liked to see more of the studentsâ reaction to the final outcome of things. A minor note.
This was brilliant, humorous writing. My witchâs hat is off to Randy McCharles. I want to see more work by him, for sure!
Randy McCharles spins a great yarn, and this is no exception
Cursed. High school drama teacher Paul Sampson believes his troubles are mundane, but little does he suspect that Macbeth is known as The Cursed Play for a very good reason. It âisâ cursed.
The cast of characters is substantial, and well fleshed out, but the witches steal the show.