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(Both stare whimsically into the distance, looking very cute trust)

“Yea… life is like a box of chocolates”

( a whole lot of silence)

One interesting thing about Shakespeare is that, as we know, he often wrote characters with a specific actor in mind, that would go o to play them (for example Hamlet his good friend, Richard Burbage. I could write an entire essay on why he was such a perfect fit for the character) This often made for very interesting situational puns during the first run of Hamlet. There are two great examples to prove this.

During Act 3 Scene 2, right after his argument with Ophelia, Hamlet asks Polonius (played by John Heminges) if he acted before, to which he replies that he did, and he played Caesar in Julius Caesar, and was killed by Brutus. The prince remarks how it must've been a 'brutal' role to kill such a 'capital a calf'. During The Globe's first year, one of it's first plays to be presented was Julius Caesar, actually starring John Heminges as Caesar, and Richard Burbage as Brutus This a great way to break the forth wall and cross-reference, but also to foreshadow the fact that Polonius will -yet again- will die by being stabbed to death by a character plaid by Richard Burbage.

Arena of Pula (Croatia) - 27 BC – 68 AD @

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“If you don’t stop petting me I will lick you.”

“Nuts, my nuts!”

A disaster of a show that is just so damn funny is The Play That Goes Wrong. With the title of Broadway’s former longest-running play, it has made the Off-Broadway jump to New World Stages, helmed with fresh energy but the same knack for comedy by Matt DiCarlo. Having seen this gem of a slapstick, physically-demanding comedy in its Broadway run, I entered the new production with the same expectations for sore cheeks and abs (okay, beer gut) from laughing so hard. My expectations were met within the first ten minutes, then continued to exhaust me from laughter, as I rubbed many a tear from my eyes on my way out of the theater.