Teaching Shakespeare

Doctor Keir Co.—Planetarium

Keir cutler’s monologue show observes a Shakespeare professor in the middle of a nervous breakdown desperately trying to reach his students after receiving a series of bad course evaluations. Unfortunately, the professor is beyond help in this parody of bad education. The play was interesting and raised some fun points about the Bard’s greatest works. Keir is clearly passionate about the subject of his play and critical of his colleagues who so often butcher teaching the Bard. While I understand this was a parody, I did find that parody became reality as parts of the play seemed to drone on. I felt like I was at a lecture which was the point of the show. This made it hard to sit through the very wordy piece in front of me. I was often lost throughout the show.

Kaitlyn Kriss