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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? :)

    3. Re:Awesome! by fgodfrey · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You know, that's kinda what I thought would happen but.... I've done "The Klingon Christmas Carol" (http://cbtheatre.org/Klingon-Xmas-Carol.html) as a sound/light designer for 3 years (and I'm about to do a 4th) and we've basically sold out every year. Plus, we got a gig for Paramount doing a few excerpts from Klingon Hamlet that are on the Star Trek VI BluRay.

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  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. 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.

  5. I just can't believe that people have that .... by scosco62 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    much free time. The time necessary for these "fantasy languages" -- Elvish, Klingon, French.....is better spent on Spanish, Chinese, Japanese or something even quasi legitimate, like Esparanto....

  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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