F*ckShakespeare

The Duke/Friar meets the populace and sees that his little experiment ain't going so well. He also hears some interesting things about himself.

Then he has a magic speech (we discuss the form of it if you're interested) and casts a spell for the conclusion of his fuckery. How will it go? Stay tuned.

Brothers and sisters with their obscure nuances, eh? Act 3: Sc 1 is the crux of the play where we get to really see what it's all about. Or do we? Some kind of trauma happened back there in the dark and dirty past in this family. The word 'incest' is not one that you can ignore or ascribe some other meaning to.

Hear what we think and let us know what YOU think is going on there.

Get ready for Isabella v. Angelo Part 2! This time there are no witnesses, and you know that won't go well... It's a deadly and sexy game they're playing. Will there be any winners?

“The very roles of nun and judge have deep roots in classical pornography... " Listen as Isabella and Angelo go toe-to-toe in their exciting first meeting. It's a sexy power struggle and we'll map out the blow by blow... so to speak. You better believe Angelo's thinking about that.

Enter the comic relief! Meet Constable Elbow and his crew of malefactors. He's one of the reasons justice doesn't really get done properly in Vienna even though he keeps trying.

Also we learned some new Elizabethan slang - stewed prunes = nutsack. You're welcome.

The word 'nun' is Elizabethan slang for 'whore,' so you can see where there might be some confusion ahead. Isabella is a novice and hoping to be inducted into the Order of St. Clare, an extremely strict sect of nuns. She needs to be shut away from the world, for reasons we may discover as we go along. But just before she can take those vows Lucio comes to enlist her aid in speaking to Angelo on behalf of her brother who's been condemned to death for fucking. Rough times.

Debauchery, Lechery, and Perjury! Oh my! Welcome to Vienna, a city full of whores, pimps, fornicators, liars, drunkards and basically our favorite kinds of folks! Measure for Measure is said to be Shakespeare's most rancid play. What a send-up! We hope you're intrigued. Come on along for this wild ride.

There will be 3 people left standing at the end - who will they be? Not Lear, ya know, cuz he's OLD.

On the eve of battle between France and England there is a reunion, but also suspicion and secret plans afoot. Lear and Cordelia finally find each other again and Lear accepts that he is just a doddering old man. Edmund seeks the audience's advice on which sister he should settle down with, and we bid farewell to Gloucester.

Gloucester and Lear finally come together and we see what these mirror men have learned over the course of their rocky voyages. Gloucester tries to end it all, but Edgar tricks him out of that ending, and just when they think all is well they encounter the mad king. He has a lot to say about the state of the world as he left it.