return of the ESOL!

[angevin2]

This is cross-posted, but hey. Since it made Metafilter, I figured it'd be fun to cross-post the long-awaited third part of the Evil Shakespeare Overlord List, newly corrected and augmented. I have incorporated suggestions made on Metafilter, so if anyone has come in from there, thanks! :)

Evil Shakespeare Overlord List, #1-359
Evil Shakespeare

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[cleanskies]

I shall not have a bare stage made of unfinished wood in order to "communicate bleakness" then dress the actors in shreds of rag and force them to roll around on it while being sprayed with freezing water from a garden hose. No, not even in Lear.

I will not have characters not in the text symbolically turn up later in other scenes, especially not if the character in question is a cold-looking girl in ill-fitting underwear. Really, it's embarassing for everyone involved.

[fawsley]

Having chortled my butt off (not the one in my avvy, that belongs to the Sacred Bean) I've friended you. Need a big dollop of Shakespeare - my fellow Warwickshireite - back in my life. Friend me back if you like, but my LJ tends to be slashy ramblngs so I understand if you don't want to!

[fawsley]

Hamlet should never, never, and I do mean NEVER end w/ "A Hard-Knock Life" from the musical "Annie".

[nextian]

When a royal presence, equal to a deus ex machina and very grand, has an entrance, do not play pseudo-disco music over it. It shouldn't make the audience laugh hysterically in a revenge tragedy.

I will NEVER

[anonymous]

I will never end a production of 'Twelfth Night' with the cast doing the Charleston, singing "I Got Rhythm" - it would be kinder to just shoot them outright.

[get_pucked]

There is no need to inject a narrator into A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is especially true if your target audience all attend or teach at a liberal arts college.