Playwriting Gifts

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Macbeth: Take Two

William Shakespeare

'This isn't working at ALL... maybe I should just forget the marriage counsellor scene!'

"I've got it! If we don't send Stanley Kauffman any tickets, maybe he won't come!"

Globe. Which line do you prefer? "What's past is prologue" or "today is the first day of the rest of your life"?

Clever youth stating that he considers Shakespeare overrated

Algernon Swinburne

Alas, poor Yorick!

"It's nice of you to say so, Ben, but somehow the idea of 'Shakespeare in the Park' doesn't really appeal to me."

Gore Vidal

Waiting Room For Godot.

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

"Jose Rivera, who wrote the screenplay for 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' is the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar. He's known for incorporating his life experiences into his award-winning writing."

Act of God

"Curtain going up. Third act – and the bitter disappointment it is."

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

Irvine Welsh

Christopher Marlowe

Harold Pinterest

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

No, you idiots, they don't include a "comments" section.

Shepherd and eurydice

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

'He really wanted to get into the zombie role, so he became a Meth-Head actor.'

"Bond James, Bond."

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Mike (The Situation) is rumored to have written the original manuscript for his best-selling memoir entirely out of bronzer.

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."