The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Last night I went to the Shakespeare tavern and watched "The Complete Works of Shakespeare." It was performed by a total of three actors who managed to complete the show in less than 2 hours. Naturally, the plays were rather condensed and happened quite quickly. They also changed some of the plays rather drastically. For example, in order to "bring the plays into a more contemporary setting" they performed Titus Andronicus as a cooking show and converted another play (which I no longer remember the name of) into a rap song. The rap song was pretty funny, even though they were terrible rappers (hm...three white guys who have probably never rapped before in their entire lives...what a surprise). The funniest play they did was Hamlet. The first time through Hamlet they recruited the audience to help them a bit, and even got one member of the audience to play Ophelia. The rest of the audience then played Ophelia's mind, a very confused mind. After finishing Hamlet once, they then redid it very, very quickly. They then did it again even faster. Then, as a finale, they did the entire thing backwards. The two funniest bits of that were when the ghost appeared and went "oob" and Ophelia undrowned. The whole performance was hilarious, and I am very glad that I decided to go instead of babysitting Anjuli.