Slings & Arrows is a Canadian comedy series that takes you behind the scenes of a big, non-profit, Shakespearean Festival. It is some of the funniest television I have ever seen. I already have the three seasons on DVD in separate offerings, but to hear that there is new material taking you behind the scenes of the show is enough to put this collection on the top of my wish list.
In each season, the New Burbage Festival produces a different Shakespearean work. Season 1 is Hamlet with a Keanau Reeves type American star being flown in for tickets sales. Season 2 is the Scottish Play with a lead who thinks he knows better than the director and Season 3 is King Lear with an aging actor taking his last chance at the role.
The show has all the great archetypes. The loony director, the diva leading lady, the air head ingenue, the actor hating stage manager and the managing director who desperate tries to balance Art with the cost of producing Art.
Season 1 is the best, but each season has great moments, not only in the theater, but in life as well. I mean, who can't relate to an IRS audit, the draw of the "bigger and better" and the daily struggles of love, life and loss.
Total Debt: $15,096
2008 goal Attained: $404 (of $5,500)
1 comment:
Drew - who else would buy a show about witches?
(hugs)
We need to find a visit time.
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