Linux Enhances Shakespeare

marXian writes "Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven." Allright, pick your jaw up off the floor ;)

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Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII

[Anonymous Coward]

Malcolm:

We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

Re:MacBeth....

[VCAGuy]

"Angels and ministers of grace defend us" from these terrible Shakespeare puns! [Hamlet, I, iv, 20]

Re:The ASCII Play

[fgodfrey]

The superstition allows you to use the title as long as you're performing it. However, I was a little bit nervous when I stage managed Macbeth on Friday the 13th... Fortunately, no actors required major medical attention after the sword fights :)

Now, Slashdot may have some trouble since they have now used the name without the performance so if you read that a fire destroyed all the computers in the /. cage and no other equipment, don't be surprised :)