Happy Wednesday Offended Listener! Today we bring you Par 2 of Love’s Labour’s Lost. We discuss the common folk of the play and how they compare the the Nobles. We talk about Shakespeare’s first “Wit”. We also discuss the Bard’s “Dark Lady” and digress a little into the sonnets. As Dani promised, here is the … Continue reading »
It’s Wednesday and that means a new episode for you, Offended Listener! Today we begin with Part I of our series on Love’s Labour’s Lost. This is Dani’s favorite play penned by her man Will, but Mike found it to be mediocre with a good mix of strong parts and a few really weak parts. In … Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, Offended Listener! Today we complete our journey through Greece with our final installment of Comedy of Errors. Within, we discuss the city of Ephesus, the conclusion of the play and our overall opinion of it. Thanks for listening! -Dani and Mike Offensive Shadows Comedy Part 3 In preparation for this series of podcasts … Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, Offended Listener! Today we continue our journey through Greece with part two of our series on Comedy of Errors. Within, we shall discuss marriage, lack thereof, a strong relationship between sisters and women in general within this play. We have also managed a special treat for you; the countries scene! Two out of … Continue reading »
It’s another Wednesday* release, Offended listener! Today we bring you part one of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Unlike our last piece The Taming of the Shrew, Comedy is a play that holds up very well to the sensibilities of modern audiences. Our heroes found it to be an amusing tale of mistaken identity, love, … Continue reading »
Welcome back, dear listener! In this, our last installment on Taming of the Shrew, we explore the real difficulties innate in presenting this show to a modern audience. Included also is Dani’s long-awaited rant about feminism (and an unspoken rant about “sexism”, “racism”, and a plethora of other modern “isms” which don’t really apply to … Continue reading »
Welcome Back Offended Listener! Today we return to The Taming of the Shrew. In part 2 of our Shrew series, we cover the wooing of Kate & Bianca by their various suitors, the conflict between the two sisters, and Petruchio’s miraculous transformation into a bull simultaneous to his sudden relocation into a proverbial china shop … Continue reading »
Happy New year Offended listener! With the new year we are starting a new play (we wish we could say thst we planned it that way because wouldn’t that make us sound super smart but alas it is merely another quirk of the temporal universe which Dani finds oh so fascinating… Mike is once more … Continue reading »