Bomb-itty of Errors, The
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, 16th Century / Elizabethan, Contemporary
- 4M or F
- ISBN: 9780573698446
This energetic twist on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a thrill, GRADE: A!
Entertainment Weekly
A rap version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors that pulses with wit, savvy and a sublime sense of its own ridiculousness... You'll be enchanted.
The Telegraph
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, 16th Century / Elizabethan, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: No Special Cautions
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Nominee! Best Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards
Nominee! Outer Critics Circle Awards
Winner! Jefferson Award in Chicago
Winner! Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen
The show lasts one hour and thirty minutes and is part play and part rap concert. Refreshingly current but retaining the integrity of the original.
REVIEWS:
This energetic twist on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a thrill, GRADE: A!
Entertainment Weekly
Bomb-itty of Errors gives the bard's slapstick farce a Generation-Y rejuvenation...scores very high on sexy-party index...You're carried along by the energetic tumble of words.
The Wall Street Journal
Bomb-itty is witty, lewd and altogether new. Think 'The Beastie Boys from Syracuse'.
The New Yorker
Nothing short of brilliant. Clever writing, rhythmic flow, witty musical allusions and intelligent humor...the show is thoroughly entertaining.' - MTV'A rap version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors that pulses with wit, savvy and a sublime sense of its own ridiculousness...You'll be enchanted.
The Telegraph
A stroke of genius...the language fizzes with new life, it's irreverent and yet in tune with Shakespeare's original, it's clever and witty and fast.
The Times
This fantastic show is one of the most entertaining, slick and inventive you'll see on the Fringe this year—and it has some clever insights to shed on the Bard's classic farce too...Does what so many productions fail to do—it makes Shakespeare funny. Not just chuckling, yes-I-see-this-part-is-meant-to-be-comical funny, but laugh out loud, hollering and cheering funny...The language is as clever, sharp and twisty as Shakespeare's.
Edinburgh Evening News
Characters
- Casting: 4M or F
- Casting Attributes: All Female, Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, All Male, Room for Extras, Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: Parts for up to 20 performers
- Chorus Size: No Chorus
ACTOR 2 - Antipholus of Ephesus, Adriana, Bobby, Backup singer, Receive Cat, Hendelberg Double #2
ACTOR 3 - Antipholus of Syracuse, Hendelberg, Abbess, Luciana Double
ACTOR 4 - Dromio of Ephesus, Luciana, Cop, C-Fake, Felicio, Shakespeare
Available Material
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Bomb-itty of Errors, The Script
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The Bomb-itty of Errors is an award-winning Ad-Rap-Tation, hip-hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. The show lasts one hour and thirty minutes and is part play and part rap concert. Refreshingly current but retaining the integrity of the original. |
$24.95 |
