Shakespearean Solo Show Launches at BAM
BROOKLYN (AP) — Take that, Roland Emmerich, “thou crusty botch of nature.” Be gone, “Anonymous,” ”thou goatish pox-marked puttock.”
If last year’s movie by the guy who brought us “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted William Shakespeare as a drunken, inarticulate buffoon, then Simon Callow is here to prove that anyone who doubts the author of “Hamlet” and “King Lear” wasn’t a glove-maker’s son from Stratford is a “fobbing fly-bitten lout.”
The U.S. premiere of Callow’s “Being Shakespeare,” a one-man show tracing the life of the Bard written by historian Jonathan Bate, opened Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater with the express intent of putting Shakespeare back on his throne.