13 July 2003

Saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company do All the Great Books. Very funny. I think you have to really know more about pop culture than the great books to really appreciate it, though. They did about 80 books. You can check out the syllabus if you want to see which ones they did. They technically didn't really do all of the books, they relegated a lot of them to just one sentence, and spent a lot of time on some of the other ones. They tackled The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (brave souls), Little Women (I'm not really sure the football metaphor really worked, but it was funny) and a bunch of others. Kudos to them for using the fight music from Star Trek for the appropriate scenes in the Iliad.

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