. . . trippingly on the tongue. And replace the artistic director.”
I’ve been mentioning some obscure derivitives, some of which haven’t yet been released. I thought I’d switch gears and mention a fabulous Shakespeare-related series that's out and readily-available:
Slings and Arrows.
The three-season Canadian television show follows the actors, directors, and staff of a Shakespeare festival as they go through three seasons.
In the first season—in the first show, even—the artistic director dies (that’s him in the coffin above) and is replaced by a new director—one who previously went insane while playing Hamlet under the previous director.
Follow that?
Anyway, the ghost of the first director (or is it a hallucination of the second director's imagining?) comes back to haunt (or is it to advise?) the second director.
Trust me, it’s great. It’s a little heavier on the heavy language than one likes for general audience viewing, but it’s full of marvelous lines, including this one from the ghost:
“Death virtually eliminates the need for pretense. There’s no one to impress.”
That from one of the most pretensious ghosts you’ll ever meet!
Links: Episode List at IMDB.
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