posted by Claire
November 23, 2009
Intermission, a youth group based in Knightsbridge that works with at-risk teenagers, has reinvented Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with street slang as a cautionary tale of violence in urban London. The production, entitled Wasted!, is currently playing at St. Saviours Church in Knightsbridge.
Read the London Evening Standard article for more.
Additional coverage appears in The Daily Mail.
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As a passionate fan of the Bard and author of the best-seller ‘To Be or Not To Be, Innit - a Yoof-Speak Guide to Shakespeare’, http://www.yoofspeak.net I am delighted to see that the trend towards making Shakespeare more accessible to the youth of today is continuing. The reason my book became a best-seller is that it put people in touch with literature who otherwise wouldn’t read it, and gave reason to discover more about a man who was a writer, producer and actor and, notwithstanding the odd love letter to Anne Hathaway, was responsible for 37 plays and 154 sonnets - and all that by the time he died at the age of 52!
And for all of the purists who feel that the complete works of the Bard should remain untouched, I defy them to read the complete works as they were originally written 400 years ago. The language was markedly different and I would defy anyone to make sense of text that was penned in the English language of that time, which is not as we know it today.
Respect.