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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. Shakespeare + Simpsons = by sczimme · · Score: 4, Interesting


    MacHomer. An excerpt from the 'About' page:

    This one-man vocal spectacular features over 50 voices from TV's favourite dysfunctional family in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy! Starring 'Homer Simpson' as Macbeth and 'Marge' as Lady Macbeth (in a script which remains 85% Shakespeare), MacHomer is hysterically funny and amazing to watch.

    A friend of mine saw MacHomer in the DC area and though it was great; apparently the voices are quite accurate.

    Oops - sorry: Linux! Linux! Linux!

    (Don't want to be off-topic. D'oh.)

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  2. Re:an Ode by ihavenovoice · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Grrr... This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette. It should have been: Linus oh Linus. Wherefore art thou linus? The question in Romeo and Juliette is Not the question -where- Romeo is, but -why- his name is Romeo. This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. 1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3. .... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong.

  3. Public Domain by ispivey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's straight up public domain, with no strings attached. Not abandonware, certainly, because there's no copyright on it.

    Ever wonder what theater these days would be like if Shakespeare's plays were protected under copyright by a control-minded estate like that of Kurt Cobain? I imagine the content would stay truer to the originals, but I'm a big fan of the creative and nutty derivative works Shakespeare has inspired over the years.

  4. shakespeare parser by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 4, Interesting

    sorry if this is going offtopic. but reading about this reminded me of a paper I read a few years back... It was about a computer program that parsed the full text of shakespears lifes work and then could predict the probability that a play or part of a play was infact not written by shakespeare. The program was used to independantly prove a hypothisis long held by scholars about some of the sonnets. Can't seem to find this interesting topic anyware on google - anyone remember it?

    Probably the tech was bought up by the CIA and classified - could be being used to verify identities of known persons in transcripts of discussions intelligence intercepts in bagdad right now.

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  5. new topic by jonnyfivealive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    now, ive only been on /. for 6 mos or so, but i would imagine that that topic pic had to be made expecially for this story... how many times does theater come up on /.?

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  6. Awful play by Gantic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This actual play premiered in my school (Thurston Community College) just outside Bury St. Edmunds. Everyone in the audience (drama students aged 13-18) thought the play was awful, the acting abysmal and the scene where some dodgy old man started making love to an ugly woman on stage terrible. If you're thinking of seeing makb3th (or as we like to pronounce mak-be-three-ith) then think again, it was not a good version of the original macbeth.

    Having said that, pretty cool that something in my area got slashdotted, never thought I would see the day! \o/