Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 09, 2023

In the words of every punk that saw the sign: What’s a Shakespeare?

Rebel without a clue.

I’m guessing he just struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

I’ve seen Shakespeare done in a replica (sort of) of the Globe though Mostly, I’ve seen his plays in more or less modern theaters. And done in the round. And done in “modern dress” with a lot of people carrying AR-15 replicas. That one was kinda weird because they didn’t change the words to match the artifacts. I’ve heard about a troupe that does some of the plays in the nude. I would go watch this guy if the location and price were right. Though I might not actually LIKE it…

Is that a ROCKSTAR game guitar?

Can’t be worse than Luhrman’s “Romeo & Julirt”

I for one would pay to see a hip-hop version of “Othello”.

Rebel without applause-ible excuse.

Great line, Wiley!

Looks very much like a tale, told by an idiot. Why can’t ‘avant-garde’ producers simply put on Shakespeare the way it was meant to be? I guess they think by putting it in modern dress it shows the universal appeal that Shakespeare always has had. Well, I always get that, no matter what they do. Actually, you get the kind of lunacy when, in the fight between the Montagues and Capulets in a modern film version, someone calls out “Put up your swords!” They were fighting with guns – not a sword to be seen …

I know a fair number of young people and quite a few into punk (which is now 50 years old BTW) and most of them are far more interested in the arts than 10x more boomers. Boomers really are guilty of judging books by their covers. That is really sad because I am astounded at how smart and interested in various things but mostly how truly good most punk kids I know really are. On the other hand most punk kids just cannot be bothered by how clueless most people who go about their boring and tedious and hypocritical lives are

To play in the key of B or in the key of B flat.

Ah yes, today’s “music”, ironic how punk rhymes with junk and rap rhymes with crap, hmmm. Simon and Garfunkel and Streisand for me.

Oh, craven new world, that has such punks in it.

Don’t feel too bad about him getting no applause.

This performance was just not very good.

It was over-hyped – it was so Much Ado About Nothing.

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Not to be. There is no question.

Hey, that guys wearing Danae’s t-shirt!

Why do I hear Lady Macbeth doing the dagger soliloquy with the Beatles “yesterday” playing in the background???

Sign up Gwyneth Paltrow to appear onstage in the nude.

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.”

I think it’s the glasses.

Isn’t that just “West Side Story?”

I actually saw a university produced punk version of Hamlet. It was paired alternate nights with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which H. was a totally comic emo. Out of all the plays I saw in 1986, it’s the only pair I remember.

He miscalculated about how popular punk has remained with the masses. It’s not a big thing anymore or ever.

“But release me from my bands / With the help of your good hands. / Gentle breath of yours my sails / Must fill, or else my project fails, / Which was to please.” Epilogue; The Tempest (first performed in 1611).

It’s odd, isn’t it? Shakespeare is still read, still performed, and still admired four centuries after his demise.

A true punk would smash that guitar. That should generate some applause

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention” – Shakespeare

He’s playing tomorrow,tomorrow and tomorrow.

Punk’s not dead, it just smells that way.

All’s well that ends well?

We’re still in neutral on that one.

“Get thee to a punkery!”

Hey ! He has Yorick on his T-shirt.

Some mutts can’t be muzzled.

Going platinum.

(Really, brain?)

Has already been done in movie form: Valley Girl was the ‘Punk’ version of Shakespear’s Romeo & Juliet

Consider yourself raspberried in a most aggressive matter……..

I’d like to see that. Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet would be good. Lear’s daughters with safety pins. The mistaken identity comedies with mohawks.

Would have been involved in a British Invasion version of The Two Gentleman of Verona about 12 years ago if enough people had shown up for auditions.

Actually, seven years ago I saw 12th Night as a rock opera. It was very good. I’m not really into soundtracks, but I loved it so much that I bought the CD.