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Linux Enhances Shakespeare

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 24, 2003 @03:01AM 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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Public Domain by ispivey · 2003-03-24 03:34 · 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.