The Hub Theatre
is fortunate to have three superb mischief makers to make hay out of
Shakespeare. The poor Bard is sliced, diced, drawn and quartered for our
amusement in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ABRIDGED] running full
tilt at Club Café through August 2nd.
Patrick Curran,
Will Moore and Brooks Reeves do what the authors of the piece didn’t when I saw
them perform it themselves eons ago. The current cast, under the effervescent
direction of Lauren Elias, keeps the silliness light and saucy and deliciously
topical. Who would have thought that Ru Paul or Donald Sterling would stand
side by side with Titus Andronicus in a Shakespeare production?
The piece de
resistance is the fifteen minute HAMLET, reduced to five, then performed
backward! Best of all, is the fact that Hub Theatre presentations are always
pay-what-you-can all the time. No hugger mugger: There’s no better bargain in
town…and I do know a hawk from a handsaw: One’s a scary bird of prey and the
other an elegant, rather shy, non-violent marsh heron.
