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Shakespeare In Klingon?

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-have-not-experienced-Shakespeare-until-you-have-read-him-in-the-original-Klingon dept.

stevegee58 writes "As if the Klingon opera described recently here at Slashdot weren't enough, here's an interesting offering for Shakespeare buffs. The Washington Shakespeare Company (based in Arlington VA) will soon be performing selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in Klingon."

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  1. Awesome! by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard a rumour that BOTH people who speak Klingon are going!

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    1. Re:Awesome! by ElectricBuddha · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'd think that the two people who speak Klingon would be the ones performing in the play.

    2. Re:Awesome! by Abcd1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

      As opposed to all the North American opera-goers who speak Italian? :)

  2. Fantastic! by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahh! This is great! I've always wanted to see Hamlet in the original Klingon!

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  3. He who brings a date to the play by muyla · · Score: 3, Funny

    will be proclaimed their king!

  4. Not all parts translate well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "To kill or not to kill, that is the question".

    "Alas poor Yorrik, he died without honor".

    "All the world's a battlefield, and all the men and women merely warriors".

    "As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was a Romulan, I slew him."

    "Cowards die many times before their deaths; a Klingon never taste of death but once."

    "Life every man holds dear; but the Klingon holds honor far more precious dear than life."

  5. And now for something completely different... by StuartHankins · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am just waiting for someone to come out and say "All right, that's enough! This is just silly. Silly, silly, silly!"

    Mad props to the Monty Python gang for many laughs over the years.

  6. Vogon Poetry in Klingon? by RevWaldo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Time for someone to really get their geek on and translate "Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning". I'd imagine it's military applications would greatly interest the Klingons, although they'd probably consider it a dishonorable method of combat.

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  7. Re: Cat got your tongue? (something important seem by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    That was an opera.

    Enough is enough. I have had it with all this motherfucking Klingon shit on this motherfucking site.

    Now I bet that sounds better in Klingon.

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