EdFringe Review #11: Polishing Shakespeare

★★☆☆☆ - To speak and purpose not

Twilight Theatre Company’s Polishing Shakespeare dramatizes imagined meetings between a dotcom billionaire, the artistic director of an “esteemed American theatre company,” and the playwright they are attempting to commission to translate Shakespeare’s works into modern English.

A thinly veiled response to the Play on! Project announced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015, Polishing Shakespeare comments on the idea of the project itself, the concept of selling out, and the nature of arts funding in the United States. Unfortunately, it does none of these with particular polish.

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