'THE
COMPRESSED WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE'
Scene
– in a circus ring
Ringmaster: Roll up! Roll up ladies and gentlemen for
the greatest show on earth. The Complete and Compressed Works of William
Shakespeare. All 37 plays – 14 Comedies, 13 Tragedies and 10 Histories
– performed right here before your eyes. See the strongman Othello…
Othello: (Strangling Desdemona) Heaven truly
knows that thou art false as hell.
Ringmaster: The amazing Prospero the magician…
Prospero: This rough magic I here abjure.
Ringmaster: The bearded lady of Twelfth Night…
Viola: Viola I shall no longer be – Cesario,
I am he.
Ringmaster: Marvel at the death-defying tight-rope
walk of Romeo and Juliet…
Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romeo: With love’s light wings did I o’er
perch these walls.
Ringmaster: Be captivated by the fierce Lion in ‘A
Midsummer Night’s Dream’…
Snug: Grrr!… Oh, sorry – I didn’t
mean to scare you.
Ringmaster: Gasp at the high-flying antics of Julius
Caesar…
Caesar: Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
Ringmaster: And laugh at the clowns…
Fool: This cold night will turn us all to fools and
madmen.
Ringmaster: All this and more in a cavalcade of comedy
and tragedy…
Chorus: The Compressed Works of William Shakespeare!
