shakespeare recycled... yet again
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"Henry VI Sock from the Right", Parts 1, 2 & 3. The Coffee Table 'Show-off' Edition. Toss this on your coffee table alongside a copy of "The Iliad" and don't have anyone doubt your erudition again. Stuck for conversation? Try, "I came across an interesting fact regarding the origin of 'Right to Life' the other day..." Throw a 'glocalization' into a sentence when things are getting a bit sticky. By the way, darling, if you come across someone who doesn't know who is being referenced in this little masterpiece, do let me know. We can have a chortle behind their backs together!TRANSCRIPT
The BBC’s Recession Theatre is proud to present
a limited edition DVD box set collection of …
“Henry VI Sock from the Right”, Parts 1, 2 & 3
Bill Gates - having just bought the rights to Shakespeare © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved – as Henry Just-An-Ordinary-Guy.
Bono as Falstaff because he’s always fancied himself... a thespian. Bill ‘Hal’ Gates has had modifications written in to accommodate them both as they’re good eggs who have become obscenely wealthy enough to alleviate their consciences by becoming self-and-media-proclaimed philanthropists. Why not allow Henry V to be integrated? It isn’t as if it’d interfere with the historical integrity.
Sir Bob Geldof as the kid who started out with good intentions but has taken up playing with the bullies as the solution to cleaning up the school ground. With the backing of the mass media, he’s convinced other children that economics are redundant and to join his band of merry plutocrats. Get off the stage, Gandalf.
KwoMan as an historically inaccurate portrayal of two Henries, half an Edward, a William and a Richard.
Loka Nunda’s boot as an Edward or Edmund’s dead foot; to be placed in a battle or murder scene of your choosing.
Ghoul Detail as Banquo’s torso.
Chris ‘Kit’ Marlowe as Shakespeare Shakespeare © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Psiloscope as any Richards, Henries, Edwards or Edmunds unaccounted for.
Payo as Cordelia.
Resiliency, thy name is woman.
Anthony Pratt as a man with a head like this inheriting a fortune being an irrefutable argument for the failure of capitalism.
Brandtkalk as additional props and an omitted apostrophe.
John Doe as a cluster of 578 spare pixels.
Fallujah and the Gaza Strip as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, when we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.
A well-thumbed copy of Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” -- the original ‘how to’ guide!
A copy of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” AND a copy of “The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History”!
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If you squint & listen carefully:
Iryna Harpy19. murmurists 20. Courtney 21. Link
Rob ChryslerPatrice Hubert (aka Pit) Duane Kirby Jensen
25. Vultures 26. Jaie
Rob Plath28. Chaan 29. devotionalhooligan 0. Dion
Pablo Vision2. James 3. Wateringcan 4. RUELA
1. Sifir Mr. KwoLoka NundaMark Bellaire
Ghoul DetailRalph Brown
Miss MistyRene Diedrich
9. Psiloscope 10. Payo
Nicholas Alexander Jaan Patterson
13. Brandtkalk John Doe Druscilla Morgan Abdul “Ben” Camel unRecordists littertecture