Monty by Jim Meddick for November 11, 2024

Brutus will be furnished with a real hunting knife.

Do the cliff notes version and get right to the good stuff.

Doubtful he’d be a fan of Caesar as Caesar challenged the status quo and gave more power to the people. That’s why he’s always portrayed as a scheming dictator, because he made his country more democratic. Much like Stalin often being compared to Hitler rather than the man who led the defeat of Hitler.

There has to be a play where someone is killed in act 1, scene 1.

“Centewion, why do they titter so?”

Audience is puzzled why this Caesar is stabbed by the whole cast including the director.

The director knew what she was doing. The end justifies the means. The play will have a happy ending in the directors eye.

“Et tu, Jarvis?”

He looks like a shaved down bigfoot.

Sic semper tyrannis.

Well I misread the first line and spent too much time contemplating the dharma department

One might have thought they were trying to discourage him from participating, but for their giving him such a flattering costume.

Act III Scene I was often a dramatic turning point in Shakespeare. In ROMEO AND JULIET, that’s when Mercutio and Tybalt die. In HAMLET, it’s when we get the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy.

Heh heh heh heh, he dies in act 3 scene one. Heh heh heh heh…..(Heh = wicked laughter)

Sic semper irritatio?

I don’t actually know Latin, but looked for some appropriate words with Google translate. There seemed to be no direct equivalent for “brat”, and the word it came up with for “annoyance” might have been misinterpreted. The word for “irritation” seems close enough. Someone else can correct the declension. ;)

Sure, Brutus kills you in the capitol in Act III (it was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there), but you get to come back in Act IV as a ghost. Not many lines, but it’s a key scene.

I’m thinking she was imagineering a particularly gruesome end for him

Well, not live theater, but didn’t every episode of Columbo open with a murder?

“Et tu , Director?”

You couldn’t get someone with better legs?????? :)

Muah Ha Ha!

My first thought is “Who’s going to guarantee only stage knives are available and used?”