That's how Edinburgh International Festival director Jonathan Mills summed up The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, a version of the Shakespeare play performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe.
The family go to see him perform the Shakespeare play "Macbeth, " but bring him bad luck by saying the play's name aloud -- in defiance of a well-known theatrical superstition.
The first Shakespeare play I directed at Stratford was Henry VIII, so it's rather wonderful to be coming back to that same material but with an entirely modern take on it.
The show will mark the first musical adaptation of a Shakespeare play at the Delacorte since "Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Musical" premiered there in 1971.
His solos have the emotional richness of a Shakespeare play ranging from the frenzied and ecstatic to the pleading and prayerful, from explosions of joy to confessional whimpers.
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And at Stratford-upon-Avon, The Orphan of Zhao - "the Chinese Hamlet" - becomes the first Chinese play ever produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Furthermore we plan to see some West End shows - Derren Brown's Svengali and musicals - and a Shakespeare play at the Globe.
In choosing this unusual theatrical device, Jonathan Kent, the director, is reinforcing the play's reputation as every gardener's favourite Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" takes its inspiration from this event.
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He hopes young Potter fans, who are not usually interested in Shakespeare, could be drawn to the play based on his past experience of moving between film and theatre, Fiennes says in an interview for BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
Yet connoisseurs need no reminding of the immense stature of Shakespeare's most explicitly political play.
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They recently staged a performance of the Shakespeare's Richard III and are acting scenes from the play as part of their protest.
It's easy to forget that the world is full of people who have yet to see any Shakespeare play.
Richard Bean, whose play about pig farmers was recently voted best new play by the critics, has called for a ban on staging Shakespeare in 2007, so hard has it become for new writers to compete.
Shakespeare's play leaves no doubt that however we value heroism on the battlefield, it's no qualification for success in politics.
Mr. ANTONI CIMOLINO (Director, "As You Like It"): This is a play that Shakespeare's written about young people falling in love and about the importance of love and about getting away from the corruption and the envy of the world that their parents have created.
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