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‘Kill Will’ offers sound and fury, but signifies nothing<?xml:namespace prefix =
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bob
Abelman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">News-Herald,
Chagrin Valley Times, Solon Times, Geauga Times
Courier<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Member,
International Association of Theatre Critics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This
review appeared in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">News-Herald on
</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">10/22/10<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-outline-level: 1"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Those
who watch hockey for the penalties, get their literature through SparkNotes and
think WWE’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Smack Down</I> is performance
art will thoroughly enjoy </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kill
Will</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">,
on stage at Cleveland Public Theatre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For everyone else, not so much.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-outline-level: 1"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Josh
Brown and Kelly Elliott, a husband and wife team of fight-choreographers, have
taken a very clever concept destined for open mike night at Hilarities and
overextended it into an evening of Shakespeare’s greatest hits. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Literally.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This
one-act, one hour production features the best of Elizabethan characters at
their worst—a collection of murder most foul plucked from scenes in
Shakespeare’s tragedies and historical dramas, and reenacted by Brown and
Elliott for laughs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Workshopped at
Cleveland Public Theatre in 2009 and recently showcased in the Minnesota Fringe
Festival, </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kill
Will</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
is making its world premiere as a professional production at the CPT Store Front
Studio.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-outline-level: 1"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This
show is more reinvention than reenactment, with violent and gory bits from the
Bard placed within the most unlikely of pop culture contexts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Select death scenes are staged as if
from a video game, a children’s story and films of various genre, complete with
cheap wigs, silly props, visual aids and assorted weaponry.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Brown
and Elliott pitch this production as if it is a backhanded tribute to
Shakespeare—a piece of theatre that pays homage to his work while simultaneously
making fun of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In truth,
</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kill
Will</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
simply strip mines these classic texts for their murderous moments, which serve
as mere fodder for a bit of stage combat (that is disappointingly stagey and
repetitive) and some stand-up comedy (that is disappointingly stagey and
repetitive).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-outline-level: 1"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #121212; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">In
contrast, the play <I>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(Abridged)</I>—to be performed by the Great Lakes Theatre Festival in March—is
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">designed
to be a theatrical celebration for those who love Shakespeare.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It, too, reduces Shakespeare’s works
into nuggets, cramming his entire canon of plays into one production for comedic
effect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">However,
it is endearingly irreverent, while <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kill
Will</I> is not.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It
is appreciative of and does justice to the original work, while <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kill Will</I> does
not.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It
is absurdly zany and genuinely smart, while <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kill Will</I> is not.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kill
Will</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
is silly, shallow and goes nowhere, which renders its humor unsustainable
throughout the course of an evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Brown and Elliott incorporate elements of audience participation to keep
things lively, but this just adds to the production’s open mike night vibe,
which did not particularly resonate with its preview-night audience last
Thursday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN>A fellow recently set a world record for reciting Shakespeare’s “To be,
or not to be” soliloquy from <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Hamlet</I>
while working out with a Shake Weight. The lesson to be learned from this is
that three minutes and 28 seconds is more than enough time to achieve your goal
if your goal is small and inconsequential.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 101.25pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN>The rest is sound and fury, signifying nothing.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kill
Will </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">continues through
October 30 at Cleveland Public Theatre on Cleveland’s near-west side.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For tickets, which range from $10 to
$15, call 216-631-2727</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">or visit <A
href=""><FONT
color=#0000ff>www.cptonline.org</FONT></A><B>.<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>