Idea

Bardolatry is a term that refers to the excessive adulation of William Shakespeare, combining the words "bard" and "idolatry". Shakespeare has been known as "the Bard" since the nineteenth century.^[1] The term derives from George Bernard Shaw's coinage "Bardolator", in the preface to his play The Devil's Disciple, published in 1901. Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare's work because it did not engage with social problems, as his own did.^[2] Shaw also compared Shakespeare unfavourably to himself in his late puppet play Shakes Versus Shav.


Totally unrelated...

Question: What two characters from two disparate plays who would be absolutely perfect for each other? I think it would be wonderfully tragic for two characters to be soul mates, but fated to be apart by their circumstances...as in, their absolutely separate narratives. I think that would be a fun game to play with overlapping scenes/splitting up dialogue from different plays. We could play around with monologues in the forms of letters...like online dating...they'll never meet...

Does that make any sense?

I think that might be a neat way to balance out a sort of bitter married couple who are totally disconnected. Maybe it would be cool if we have the two young couples in the woods' stories, interspersed with the worrying parents....that way the disconnected yuppy suburban hateful mother and father could serve as an interesting accent/game without having the pressure of holding up the entire show.

hmm.

Note to self: learn to articulate thoughts.