This
review was originally written for artsHub.
To celebrate the
400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (as well as his 452nd
birthday), Post-Haste Players are doing something a little bit different. While
others are falling over backwards trying to enunciate why Shakespeare is
Shakespeare, why his plays still matter, what he might be doing if he was alive
today, Post-Haste Players are celebrating his skill for creating new words and
new stories with a show that would probably make the man himself laugh and roll
in his grave (quite possibly with laughter), at the same time. Using their
skills as improvisers and actors well-versed in the themes and patterns in
Shakespeare’s plays, the Players are creating entirely new and improvised plays
which may be Shakespearean, with the help of the audience. What ensues is, well,
nothing short of madness.
