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Linux Enhances Shakespeare

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

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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  1. Re:MacBeth.... by VCAGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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    Q: "Why do sound techs say 'check 1, 2'?"
    A: "Cause if they could count any higher they'd be lighting techs."
  2. Re:The ASCII Play by fgodfrey · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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 :)

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    Go Badgers! -- #include "std/disclaimer.h"