Monday, December 8, 2008

"Slings" on Sundance

The Gray Lady reports that "Slings & Arrows" -- arguably one of the funniest Shakespeare-related things ever written -- is being rerun on the Sundance Channel. I've watched the DVDs of the series so many times that I may soon have to replace them. In season one of the show, explains the NYT:


Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross) ... is New Burbage’s interim artistic director. He inherited the job after his drunken predecessor, Oliver Welles, was run over by a ham truck. Now he must direct an illiterate teen idol from Hollywood as Hamlet while dealing with egomaniacal actors, directors — and Oliver (Stephen Ouimette), who keeps showing up to chat, just like Hamlet’s ghost.

Good stuff. :) Catch it if you can.


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