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@SHAKESPEARE.COM Bakehouse Theatre Until 26 Feb 2011
Review by Jamie Wright
There are many things you can do with Shakespeare, but if that includes having a time-travelling robotbring the Bard to the present day to rewrite his works for Gen-Y, you really need to do a better job of itthan the mess presented by the people responsible for ‘@Shakespeare.com’.
Muddled, incoherent, under-rehearsed and poorly acted, it does touch on one or two interesting ideasabout the role of social media in today’s society – likening the slandering of Hero in ‘Much Ado AboutNothing’ to modern-day cyberbullying for example – but these concepts aren’t sufficiently developed andare buried under the distracting chaos.
Given the potential for a clever and interesting examination, this was a real disappointment.
Rating: 1 star (out of 5) |
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