Shakespeare as Shakespeare intended | Oregon Art Beat

The Bard comes to life with Portland's Original Practice Shakespeare Festival, featuring outdoor performances using scrolls and little in the way of rehearsal.
This story originally aired on May 26, 2011.
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[@cosmozellman]

Having seen this group in person, I am a huge fan. The world would be better with more of this out there.

[@StubbyandShifu]

Shakespeare is not hard to understand. I learned early on that he wrote for the masses. I had a complete collection of unabridged Shakespeare while in high school. And on the pages that needed it were definitions of words and explanations of phrases. These were published in the early 1900s and I read all of them. My parents needed money and sold them. I'm 69 and still miss them. I have a complete collection, but it's not the same. I watched every performance I can; David Tennant is wonderful at making Shakespeare easy to understand.

[@TaylorRyanKitterman]

I need to know more about the scrolls. Where do you get the paper? How do you print them? What is this witchcraft?