Show: 18
Category: Comedy / Improv / LGBTQIA+ Content / Shakespearian elements
By: Juliet & Juliet
Created by: Meghan Wolff & Sami Haeli
Location: Theatre in the Round
Summary: Just as the title says - two women improvise a new Shakespeare play, written by the Bard himself!
Highlights: This show is a lot of fun. Meghan and Sami have obviously done this a lot, because the Shakespearean language (with lots of prithees, thous, and perchances) flows effortlessly off their tongues. At the beginning of the show they ask for a couple of themes and some names, and they're off and running. The show I saw was about friendship and being unprepared. We meet two friends at the king's court who need to deliver him a message, which one of them received from a forest sprite. Scenes go back and forth between the faery world and the king's court, and then the worlds collide and the two actors are running back and forth playing multiple characters in the same scene! They manage to work in quite a few Shakespearean tropes - an apothecary with a magic potion, faeries doing mischief to mortals, and character soliloquys while the other one is standing right there but cannot hear. If you're a fan of Shakespeare, or improv, or having a good time - go see this show!
