Good memories from Lit 1A...

The Skinhead Hamlet

Shakespeare's play translated into modern English.

[Our hope was to achieve something like the effect of the New English Bible. --Eds.]

( The curtain rises, silence falls... )

Two of our professors actually performed this for the benefit of Lit 1A back in Glasgow. I wish our German profs had done this for us over here, it was both very, very disturbing and hilarious in a wrong way. ... Well, still not as hilarious as one of those two Glaswegian professors doing his impression of Mel Gibson as Hamlet. I never quite got why he jumped on the table to get his message across there, but I daresay it had something to do with the physicality of the role. Sigh. I loved that man.

Anyway.