Ophelia's Grave Relations Raccoons

On Tuesday we looked at one of my favorite outdoor Shakespeare performance anecdotes, Squirrel Butt Romeo. Actor and fight director Geoffrey Kent (currently appearing at the American Shakespeare Center as Antony, Antony, and some other guy who is not Antony) has so far been the closest to unseating Squirrel Butt Romeo, with this spectacular trainwreck:

This is one case in which I feel the comic cannot capture the absurdity of the actual event. Anyways, things apparently got weirder after that:

Considering the invlosed trap then caused Claudius to keep stomping on it while speaking to Laertes about his love for his sister? And the sword fight in the now teeter totter. It just. Keeps. Giving.

— Geoffrey Kent (@fightguy) June 4, 2019

So… do you have an outdoor Shakespeare anecdote that can beat that?

Squirrel Butt Romeo

I love Shakespeare performance anecdotes, so I was delighted when a recent Twitter conversation about outdoor Shakespeare productions started to generate a “best of” list of natural calamities.

Here is my current favorite, as supplied by my friend Kate Powers, director, educator, founder of the Redeeming Time Project, and all-around excellent Shakespeare geek.

More anecdotes coming. If you think you have an anecdote that can compete with Squirrel Butt Romeo, leave me a comment or add to this Twitter thread:

Please let me know if you have an outdoor Shakespeare story that you think can beat Squirrel Butt Romeo. https://t.co/lHL61fsEaF

— Good Tickle Brain (@GoodTickleBrain) June 2, 2019

Close, But No Caesar

Phew, Julius Caesar is getting pretty heavy, isn't it? Let's take a brief moment for some comic relief before we move into Act 4:

Sorry not sorry.

Repeat Before Me

You know when you're in the audience at a Shakespeare play and one of the Famous Monologues arrives and you can feel a susurrus ripple through the theatre as everyone tries to say the lines along along with the actor on stage?

Don't be one of those people. 

In other news, I'm collaborating with a friend of mine on a new comic, Keep Calm and Muslim On. I don't have a set update schedule for it (probably "whenever I get time") but you can keep up with it on Facebook and Twitter if you're interested. Here's a sample comic:

Also, if you've ordered something from the Good Tickle Shoppe and it hasn't shipped yet, don't worry! I'm still working my way through the inundation of poster orders. I'm sorry it's taking me so long, but I'm almost caught up.