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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success
NYTimes.com: LIKE a clumsy kid in the schoolyard Shakespeare’s late play “Cymbeline” has suffered plenty of bullying. George Bernard Shaw called it “exasperating beyond all tolerance.” Henry James named it “a florid fairy tale.” And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.”
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Way to go for it guys!! Deciding to put on "Cymbaline" was an extremely guttsy and exciting move and one that gives me hope. It proves that if you believe in something enough and put all that you have in to it than it is fool proof. Theatre will always remain (even through Shakespeare's fiasco phases).
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