With just two episodes remaining in the season, we finally see some Shakespeare content. But to get there we have to struggle through Jack’s “method” of finding the lines. Without him, there’s no vision, and none of the other actors can do what they need to do. Claire is terrible, Ellen is insufferable, and Oliver’s…

Slings & Arrows Episode 3 ended on a cliffhanger as a duel broke out between Geoffrey and Darren. As we open Episode 4, Ellen’s house looks a bit like Elsinore must have looked in Hamlet Act V. Much of her furniture may not have survived, but what of her cast mates? Where are they as…

Despite becoming Interim Artistic Director as well as custodian of former director Oliver’s skull, the one thing Geoffrey does not want to do is direct the company’s production of Hamlet. But can he sit back and watch as the production is handed over to his arch-nemesis? Amid the backdrop of Geoffrey’s supposed madness, we also…

Episode two covers episode two of Slings & Arrows. Despite calls for “More Shakespeare,” Duane and Keith find a considerable number of connections to Hamlet, the play the rest of Season One will cover.  Here’s an image of the memorial service at the New Burbage Theatre—we talked about how tacky and overwrought it was, but…