I'm all, like, OMG. The Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre is actually doing Romeo and Juliet in Elizabethan dress this season. This will be the first Shakespeare play I've seen in decades that's in Elizabethan dress! I won't know how to react.
Though the very best Macbeth I ever saw was also by Gamm. The dress was sort of modern guerilla, but that wasn't the important thing. The staging was incredible, with the audience in four movable tiers that were, indeed, moved all over the former garage theater as the play unfolded. They started pushed against one wall, pretty normal. Then they were pushed to within three feet of the opposite wall, creating a claustrophobic hallway for Macbeth's argument with Lady M. and the "dagger before me" speech. Pushed to face the lobby for Lady M.'s mad scene. Circled around the dueling Macbeth and Macduff. Then there were the sweet little girls playing the witches (chilling), as well as Macduff's murdered chicks. The car of murderers barreling through the convenient garage door to get the Macduffs and load them into the trunk. Lady M. wandering around and around the whole garage through the climax. The actors hung in S/Mish attitudes from the ceiling to represent the carnage of the opening battle.
Sounds weird, was gorgeous and terrifying. I went three times.
Updated classics in book form? Well, looks like Pride and Prejudice has a big lead on those, lately. Right down to P & P and Zombies. Ewww.
