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"THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) is now in its EIGHTH hilarious year" in London's West End, and if you travel on the underground you certainly know about it, as their leering faces adorn every escalator.

Are they any good? My guess would be... no.

― gobemouche, Thursday, 21 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw them do 'As you like it' many years ago, I wouldnt recommend it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw them on the telly years ago, doing an extract from their show. They did Hamlet in (IIRC) one minute, then thirty seconds, then three seconds. I can't remember much about it, except that it wasn't that funny.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 21 August 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this the first or second night I was in London. Then Heather, Mary, Melissa and I wandered around Leicester Square drinking Strongbow.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems like it should be very funny, but I don't laugh. I mean, I always laugh at everything, if it doesn't make me laugh, WTF?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's probably a lot funnier if you ARE Shakespeare.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 21 August 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw them do "All the Great Books" at the Kennedy Center in DC a few weeks ago. It definitely was very funny stuff, but you really need to be a part of the live theater audience to experience it properly. I can understand why it wouldn't translate as well otherwise. Same went for "Complete Works...Unabridged" when I saw it in London two years back.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 21 August 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a copy of their script which I revised from for my literature A-level rather than reading the Shakespearean originals.

I got an A.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, but a buncha people every year get an A for literature WITHOUT OPENING THE TEXTS, you know

― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I got an A and I can't even speak English.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw their history of the first two millenia (or something) and it was so dreadful i nearly walked out at half time, but meg made me stay so i just tried to go to sleep instead...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to do that when I was little and my parents took me to see La Cirque Imaginaire.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(foolishly thinking "Hey - kids love circuses so surely they'll love a French one that replaces animals with mime artistes")

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

well, mimes do usually have that same elephant shit smell that creates the funfunfun circus vibe.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 22 August 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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