RSC: The Comedies

[@DreamHarp85]

Saw this twice when I was in London...I want to see it again! This really helps me re-live the show, thanks!

[@Spar10Leonidas]

"The Comedy of Two Well-Measured Gentleman Lost In the Merry Wives of Venice On a Midsummer's Twelfth Night in Winter" or "Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant In the Tempest of Love As Much As You Like It For Nothing" or "Four Weddings and a Transvestite." XD

[@Immalovinthesingin]

"The Duke recognizes his daughters!" * Looks uncomfortable

[@MidwesternDiva]

I love being a Shakespeare nerd and figuring out which references go with which comedies.

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

"Four Weddings & A Transvestite" Considering Shakespeare's brand of script-writing, does anyone want to see that as an actual film in the 1990's?

[@TheClockworkQuill]

Love this. Saw it for the first time today. And who showed it to me? My English teacher. Win.

[@bluefox99887]

We watched Reduced Shakespeare Co. in my AP Lit and Comp class! ;D These guys are genius! :)

[@coramunroe]

Yes indeed =) That would explain plays like Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice (also called "problem comedies") which end happily but are quite serious along the way.

[@KATTALNUVA3]

Amen to that. No matter how many times I see it, it still sounds fresh

[@2014guardgirl]

"Now the 6 brothers fall in love with 6 Italian sisters, 3 of whom are contentious, sharp-tongued little shrews, and 3 of whom are submissive, air-headed little bimbos." XD

[@ellenskipper7888]

We did a 6-people cast of this play, when I was college. Three boys and three girls and we’d go from all sharing a few scenes to “fighting”- on stage, in front of an audience- over which three would get the next scene. My girls and I got so good at doing this one, the boys didn’t bother stage fighting with us anymore. I was the middle! 😁

[@Kristanite]

What's important is that they All Live Happily Ever After

[@junglekiity]

My favorite line has to be "Aphroditic juice of a hermaphroditic flower" BRILIANCE

[@HollyhockTalon]

"...Exept for aminor charecter in a second act who gets eaten by a bear..."

[@PenJLane]

"Exit, Pursued by a Bear." ^_^

[@WannabeJackassStars]

AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

[@hannahross9256]

Wait... What happened to the dukes eldest daughter??? We lost track of her after her tryst with the fish-man 👀

[@MidwesternDiva]

"most virginal." how exactly would that?... I don't wanna know.

[@simrenbajaj6000]

They weren’t allowed to be alone with men

[@LightningbugsInAJar]

Haha was just cast in this at my school under comedies, now i'm excited :D

[@MissDesiPrincess]

Adam Long is something else. he is awesome

[@samandal007]

Thank You!

[@kitkatnov9]

i am a sophomore in high school and i am in honors language arts which is world literature instead of normal language arts, but we still have a month or so where we have to study shakespeare and my teacher showed us this because she was like "yeah you guys might get some of the jokes" .......we got all of them lol this is the funniest thing ive ever seen!!!

[@hihi0]

SHAKESPEARE LOVED TROPES.

[@matts.6234]

Shakespeare wrote 16 comedies instead of one because ticket sales. Just like a lot of young adult fiction today.

[@TheLowBrassDude]

Also for the same reason Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, You gotta pay rent.

[@xLegendNasHx]

Symbelene taming Pericles the Merchant in the tempest of love as much as you like it for nothing! love it :)

[@koolaid9391]

We watched this in Drivers Ed today, and I cracked up like, the whole time.

[@FatherTime89]

I swear this is the biggest what the fuck moment of all time.

[@MidwesternDiva]

it's funny they mention Italiana dell'arte because the Shakespeare Co. is pretty much a dell'arte group - and a damn good one!

[@TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN Its the 11/12th grade AP English teacher at my school who showed it so me. He is going to show it to us during class later this year. He's absolutely awesome. We're going to have us listen to Sting sometime during this unit, and I'm so excited. Also, he for a moment at least considered actually showing us Monty Python and the Holy Grail for this unit also. I love that I go to a school where a teacher would be able to show us that and not get in trouble.

[@GaleStream]

in the play (not the title cause that's too obvious :P), I listened and found references to Midsummer Night's Dream, Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Merry Wives, Taming of the Shrew, As you like it, and Much ado about nothing... Can't seem to find any other refs in the acts.

[@bluefox99887]

Bloody genius!

[@Lefty001]

pure genius

[@MidwesternDiva]

@thelashers Or from As You Like It when Rosalind dresses up as a young boy named Ganymede so she can court her lover

[@TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN We haven't done Shakespeare yet, that's later this year. He showed it to a group of us that always eats lunch in his room.

[@cammiesmith2443]

I WATCHED THIS IN MY ENGLISH CLASS

[@samandal007]

Do you know where I can get the script for this play?

[@horse631]

@AvaNickol Its "Thespians" with a "P" not a "B" :)

[@koolaid9391]

It was near the end of school, so it was kind of a free day. There was nothing else to do. :)

[@aaronmorse4883]

Gotta love the tempest

[@slanderoushalo]

all of them

[@FatherTime89]

The Comedy of Two Well Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummer's Twelth Night in Winter. or Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as You Like it for Nothing. or Four Weddings and a Transvestite.

[@TheClockworkQuill]

@Becatsup He might. Illiad and Odyssey are next year.

[@Witleneko]

True story, bro.

[@samandal007]

Thx.

[@MusicIsMyLifeLike123]

THIS IS SO CORRECT. SO VERY CORRECT.

[@GaleStream]

@Rueneko yeah I saw that too, missed it while putting that down in the comments :P

[@missbabyice]

Great :D

[@TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN Well after doing voyage of the hero and Gilgamesh in the 9/10 nothing really is out of bounds. We started this year off with viking era literature. How did our teacher sum up the Anglo-Saxon era? Blood, beer, raping and pillaging.

[@MrKaywyn]

Just like the Radio show.

[@laggalanne]

Which comedies are in this?

[@coramunroe]

Hahaha, WIN.

[@2014guardgirl]

As You Like It reference!! :D

[@FatherTime89]

Err that's the taming of the shrew not the turning of the shrew.

[@cerevor]

I think most Shakespeare plays are fairly straightforward to understand in their structure and intent, but his comedies remain pretty effing weird. I have no connection to them. I think they're most responsible for any dislikes and accessibility problems. "oh, comedy? let's see... what is that..."

[@KATTALNUVA3]

Stop me if I'm wrong about this but... In Shakespeare's time if a play was a comedy didn't that just mean it was a play with a happy ending?

[@Soitisisit]

@Beatles1717 Umm... the whole time, maybe? I blacked out once or twice because I was laughing too hard to breathe, but I think the shrews were dressed as pages and something with the bimbos. *shrug* No clue.

[@Stroodledoodle311]

@bluefox99887 haha, we did in mine too! I'm surprised that teachers share these guys. I totally thought ours did just because he was cool, but maybe a lot of AP Lit and Comp classes do.

[@RyuBlue]

"Lobotomy" is such an odd word...

[@communiqation]

The Comedy of two well measured Gentlemen lost in the merry wives of Venice on a midsummer's twelfth night in winter. or Cybeline taming Pericles the Merchant in the tempest of Love as much as you like it for nothing. or Four weddings and a transvestite.

[@IkuralHakiir]

Comedies usually end with a marriage.

[@PsychIGotcha]

Don't read the transcript! It makes absolutely no sense. Actually, read it. It's pretty funny

[@MazAMaTaz]

What always ticks me off is that Austin didn't say, "And they all have a lovely, bisexual, animalistic orgy." Only because I find that hilarious and that's what's in the script.

[@ITSemilyOMG]

"...OR 4 Weddings and a Transvestite." LOL.

[@Soitisisit]

@HollyhockTalon HAhahahaa! Oh wait.. I'm that minor character! DX<

[@TheClockworkQuill]

Other then the wine part that all sounds like this teacher. Our teachers can get away with a lot, but giving alcohol to high school students is a little beyond the line, and most certainly illegal. A lot of the teachers at this school are like this. Freshman year I spent the last week of my Biology class watching House. I guess the moral (if you can call it that) of the situation is: If you want fun teachers, go to an arts school.

[@lopenash]

Why?

[@Tranqualizer20]

They use puppets for that one scene in Hamlet. Not for this.

[@kygirl101]

isn't it supposed to be "one of the bimbos grows up to be Vanna White"?

[@MidwesternDiva]

4 Weddings and a Transvestite. So true.

[@elamentalmaster]

Hahahahahah XP that was good you know i was actuly almost in the play a mide summers night dream i wuld have bin olderon king of the faires and befor any one seas any thing i made sherten that i looked nuthing like the stariotipic fary the costume wuld have bin all black and to get back to my point we wher unable to do the play becuse one of the pepole playing on of the lead roles i cant remember wich got suspended and we culdent replace him in time o well

[@coffeejerk85]

Twelfth Night

[@silvertamagachi]

This is a freaking depressing comedy . . . XD

[@snowgrett14]

OR...four weddings and a transvestite!

[@ackbarfan5556]

The Russin part was funny, it made no sence to the story what so ever

[@xtiermishuexx]

im the minor character in the second act, who was eaten by a bear...