LIVE! ...at the Cockpit: Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men
(Shakespeare, yes ... but this time from behind)
Back stage at the Globe will be our postmodern palette. A totally green production, too.
Eco-friendly. Une etude en verte. Queen Elizabeth liked green. Green sleeves she wore.
Somebody even wrote a song. Shakespeare wrote plays he hoped she would like. Bio-
degradable plays like Midsummer Night's Dream which ends with a play within a play
but if it's at the end how could it be "within?" It's a play put on at court by the local guildsmen,
medieval tradesmen, mechanicals, called "the lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus
and Thisby" which you will not see. What you will see is how the actors, the Lord Chamberlain's
Men of which Shakespeare was a sharing member (he actually got some of the money), behave
backstage during the play at the end of the play, which - ever wonder? - could be more entertaining
than what's going on onstage. It's 1599 and these self-same actors have just erected their new theatre:
The Globe ... the world's a stage. A green one.
Watch Will at work during the Frigid Fest, Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth St. (betw. 2nd and Bowery)
(Thursday February 26 at 10:30, Sunday March 1 at 5:30, Tuesday March 3 at 10:30, Thursday March 5 at 9:00,
and Sunday March 8 at 1:00)
Tickets $16. Call Smarttix at 212-868-4444.
Caution!
(This new theatre work was originally conceived as a feminist dramaturgical deconstruction of
Elizabethan theatre, but it just got out of hand after we cast it)
Evie Aronson, our back stage costumer/prompter "Nell" for whom no historical evidence exists
and is thereby a fig leaf of our imagination and is also therefore missing from the picture up there
Kobun Kaluza as "Henry Condell," apprentice to "John Heminge," (Condell and Heminge were
responsible for the famous "First Folio," preserving his plays for posterity: that's us)
Garret Lang as musician/actor "Augustine Phillips"
James Richard as lead actor/sharer "Richard Burbage" (probably played the biggies: Macbeth, Hamlet,
Othello, Lear)
Amara Untemeyer as a woman who calls herself "Thomas Pope" himself
Dave Warth IS the "Bard," William no middle name Shakespeare, whom most of the world acknowledges
was and is the greatest writer of English ever born of a woman and is, as we will prove beyond the shadow
of any doubt before your amazed and disbelieving eyes, the smuttiest.