All the world’s a stage…

Happy Birthday to the Bard!

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players;

they have their exits and entrances;

and one man in his time plays many parts…”

As you like it, Act II, Scene 7 – Shakespeare

Today is the celebrated birthday for William Shakespeare!

(Actually, scholars are not exactly sure, but hey, it’s not like we are going to miss his b-day party or anything).

We, MPIII salute the bard, heralded as the greatest writer in the English language, and inventor of cheese wiz! (ok, we made the second one up).

Shakespeare wrote a ton of stuff (well, there is even some debate there too…man, these theatre types), and we have to say, we dig it.

Well, maybe not all of Titus, especially when we have to do an excerpt from it…it feels like Julia Childs meets the Sopranos. 

We have a special respect for Shakespeare, as one of our first stage productions (together as MPIII) was the Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged, by the Reduced Shakespeare Company.  It is an absolutely brilliant and hysterical conglomeration of the bard’s works reduced down to a single play.

Even more astounding was the fact that we did it LEGAL (i.e. paid a royalty and all that), which is only slightly more amazing than the fact that Dex was able to occasionally remember his lines (He can’t remember squat, that’s why his focuses on improv). 

As part of the remembrance of the bard, and our history of doing the show, we have put one of our favorite props up on the site (no, its not the dummy we used in : The complete Shakespeare sonnet collection!  This is from the part of the play where Beavis was trying to read the sonnets to the audience…and yes, we actually got them all on there!  Check it out for yourself…MPIII Compilation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

None the less, the work of the great bard can be truly inspiring, especially if you have ever seen a serious high quality production (i.e. not one of ours!).

So Mr. Shakespeare, until we meet again…