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| Students
Stage The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)
by Lainey S. Cronk |
 In
10 high-energy performances from February 16 to March 5, three
PUC students brought audiences a hilarious presentation of Shakespeare’s
works—all condensed into a two-hour performance. Senior television & film
and history major Zach Dunn, sophomore English major Caleb Rasmussen,
and senior math major David Kanter formed The United Shakespeareans
and took on The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (abridged),
a comedy in two acts written by The Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Directed by PUC alum Jim Smith and produced by Resident Artist
Mei Ann Teo, Complete Works featured the three actors taking on
a wide assortment of roles as they portrayed, dissected and turned
upside-down such characters as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth,
Julius Caesar, Hamlet and a host of other classics from one
of the most beloved playwrights of all time.
It’s no surprise that all three of these students are more
or less obsessed with Shakespeare. The skill—and endurance—with
which they flew through scores of costume changes, songs, dances
and a frantically paced synopsis of Hamlet was enough to verify
their delight in this opportunity to present all of Shakespeare’s
histories, comedies and tragedies in one performance. |
