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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2011-09-09 08:16 am
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By now most people have heard about Orson Scott Card's latest descent into madness, the rewritten Hamlet. Unfunny business takes him on, and delights my Hamlet-loving soul with 'Versions of Hamlet that get the point better than Hamlet's Father': including the historical yakuza Japanese musical with the catchy 'To be or not to be' show stopper. 'Mata mata mata mata mondai da.'

(Runner up- the Animaniacs with translation by Dot. I would add the kids in Masked Detective who rewrite Hamlet as a murder mystery involving half a dozen other Shakespearian characters, but I'd have to roust out my volumes to remember who dunnit in the end.)

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2011-09-09 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow! I read some of that thread ... Mr Card really?? Really?

I wonder if there is anywhere one can see/dl/whatever that Japanese play in full ...

Have A Monsterpiece Theatre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcc44UYrECA) ^_^

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2011-09-09 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
and egads ... I knew there was a Saiyuki version too (http://andmydog.livejournal.com/96636.html) ...If you haven't seen it I hope you enjoy. ^_^