Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 14, 2023

To be or not to be…..

Truth in advertising

Isn’t that a little heavy for 8th graders? Murder, bloodshed suicide?

Ah Shakespeare with cracking voices , shy mumbling, forgotten lines , missed cues , pure bliss !, Wouldn’t miss it !

It’s a tragedy in so many ways.

Romeo and Juliet would fit right in with todays schools

Have you seen World of Warcraft?

Alas, poor Horatio, I knew him well.

By the end, everyone in the cast was dead. They were the lucky ones.

Accuracy in reporting…..

You get two, two, two tragedies in one!

Great art, great double entendre…

This reminds me of the church bulletin announcement: Do you know what Hell is? Come in and listen to our organist.

ba dum tss

If 8th graders are studying Shakespeare these days, I’d say that’s something to celebrate!

Tha perfesser’s attempt at comedy doesn’t ‘play’ well.

We read Hamlet for 12th grade, also read Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, and it was the year that Mel Gibson’s movie Hamlet came out so the English teacher got toe school to rent out the theatre for an afternoon and the whole senior class went. I thought it was an interesting movie but there were many differences from the book. The next day when each English class went in the found out that we were going to be tested on the movie to make sure we were paying attention. The first class of the day was surprised most because the rest of the classes had been forewarned by fellow classmates about the test. I think I got a 90% on it, had a hard time remember all the character names and what happened to them all.